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Peter Gagliardi @PeterGagliardi (132) • , Pennsylvania 24 Jun 16

The vote is in and Great Britain is leaving the European Union. People want their freedom back and are tired of big government with all of its laws, rules, regulations, and red tape. Many believe this desire for freedom and...

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What direction should the Country take?

bobmnu @bobmnu (8157) • United States 29 Nov 12

The founding fathers had an idea that the states could do things differently and if people liked one way over another they could move to that state. Now the media has divided the country into Red States and Blue States. One of the...

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Big Brother is listening!

estherlou @estherlou (5015) • United States 30 Oct 11

We all are used to the idea that we are monitored by traffic cameras, video surveillance at banks and ATM machines, in stores etc. but we don't always remember it. Here is an article talking about the government/president able to...

big government

government control

obama

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Obama wants to inject our kids with anthrax?

estherlou @estherlou (5015) • United States 30 Oct 11

What? You have got to be kidding!The injections have dangerous side effects and have caused some deaths in the past. "The Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported in June 2007 that “some servicemembers who received the...

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Another FEMA diabolical Situation

bobmnu @bobmnu (8157) • United States 14 Sep 11

It seems that after the tornadoes in the south FEMA offered to build tornado shelters for the schools that had been demolished and were using portable classrooms. Now that the schools are being rebuilt FEMA has told them that they...

big government

fema

over regulations

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The Third American Revolution coming soon?

BalthasarTheRat @BalthasarTheRat (656) • United States 28 Jul 11

Americans have 2 basic reasons for rising up against government: they don't like taxes and they don't like being told what to do. 1776, Britain had pushed the colonies to the breaking point just because it was unbelievably...

united states of america

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Environmental Law costs Jobs

bobmnu @bobmnu (8157) • United States 11 Oct 10

It seems that the Green thinking Members of Congress passed a law saying that incandescent light bulbs will be outlawed starting in 2012. The law has already cost Americans their jobs and given a boost to the economy of China....

big government

compact fluorescent lights

incandescent light bulbs

laws

regulation

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DemocRats Guessed Wrong on Healthcare

mattic @mattic (282) • United States 25 Sep 10

That's the headline of an article posted this week in Politico (www.politico.com/news/stories/0910/42588.html). Here's an exerpt: Rarely have so many political strategists been so wrong about something so big. But when it comes...

big government

healthcare reform bill

midterm elections

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California Elected Officials Arrested

bobmnu @bobmnu (8157) • United States 24 Sep 10

This head line appeared this week and it made me think. Here were these elected officials who were making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in salary's. How many times have we heard that the government needs to raise taxes...

The TEA Party and the people

bobmnu @bobmnu (8157) • United States 20 Sep 10

I have been traveling this past week and with the primaries and the news from different states it is getting very interesting. In UP state New York I saw several sign and bumper stickers that simply said Carl I'm mad as He11 too....

big government

frustration

tea party

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Civil Rights Act

bobmnu @bobmnu (8157) • United States 23 May 10

Rand Paul started a controversy with his comments about the Civil Rights Act. First he said he would not, I repeat He would NOT repeal the act but would like the nation to have a philosophical discussion about it. I would like...

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States Rights vs Federal Control

bobmnu @bobmnu (8157) • United States 25 Apr 10

Our founding Fathers had a novel ideas at the time. Lets form a country where people are free to govern themselves and to have different States have different laws. Over the years we have strayed from this idea and the Federal...

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Pushing the Health Care Bill without a vote?

estherlou @estherlou (5015) • United States 19 Mar 10

"Reforms pushed by President Obama and other Democrats may be approved without ever actually having a direct vote, but could be "deemed" to have been passed and then signed into law by Obama. The process is called the "Slaughter...

big government

health care reform

unconstitutional

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Protesters demand more government vs the TEA Party.

bobmnu @bobmnu (8157) • United States 6 Mar 10

It seems interesting that those demonstrating for more government have the demonstrations turn violent and cause damage to public and private property and it seems like the press is treating them as justified. When a TEA Party...

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Crony Capitalism not Capitalism...

missybal @missybal (4489) • United States 16 Jan 10

I was surfing through Youtube and came across this video of interest... If you watch the whole 6 parts this is one big eye opener. If you think government is the answer then this ought to change your mind. The government has been...

Good government?

amyjolenesmith @amyjolenesmith (21) • United States 29 Oct 09

A recent comment in another post led me to this quote: "Must good government affirmatively respond to any needs the people express, or should leaders begin with an evaluation of what is constitutionally permissible, and what...

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Lobbying Is Just Big Business Doing Business With Big Government

gewcew23 @gewcew23 (8007) • United States 4 Sep 09

A couple of weeks ago a Democrat here on MyLot wrote a comment that America is controlled by big corporations. Funny because America is controlled by Democrats, huge majority in the House, super majority in the Senate, and the...

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big government

lobbying

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Millions of Dollars in Stimulus Checks Sent to Dead People

AnjaP @Rollo1 (16676) • Boston, Massachusetts 15 May 09

The latest news confirms that the Social Security Administration has issued stimulus checks to a number of deceased Americans, because, they say, the government didn't know they were dead. I can understand how SSA might go on...

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checks to dead people

social security

stimulus checks

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Socialism Explained

its-logos-plus-logic @flowerchilde (12529) • United States 20 Apr 09

An economics professor at Texas Tech said he had never failed a single student before but had, once, failed an entire class. That class had insisted that socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a...

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High cost of College

bobmnu @bobmnu (8157) • United States 8 Oct 08

When I graduated (average time 4 years) from College in 1971 a state school was $1,700 state tuition, books, supplies, room and board. I took a job teaching for $7,100. I received my sons (average time in college 4.5 years)...

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