The best part is the reaction of the STATE. The Governor asked the Director of the "Human Control"...er..."Human SERVICES", to intervene.
On Tuesday, agency Director Ismael Ahmed said good neighbors should be allowed to help each other ensure their children are safe. Gov. Jennifer Granholm instructed Ahmed to work with the state Legislature to change the law, he said.So, citizens of the United States of America ought to be PERMITTED to watch each others' kids at home in their neighborhood - By. The. State. - so says the kind and compassionate and reasonable apparatchik.
Aren't we lucky that the STATE is so benevolent?
wtp
I live in Massachusetts - The Nanny State, just over the border from "The Ocean State" of Rhode Island and just below New Hampshire where their motto is "Live Free or Die". So remember, when quizzed show your knowledge, Massachusetts is the Nanny State.
ReplyDeleteNow, I'm sure that anyone reading this understands how a people's freedoms are insidiously chipped away at by the state; small things at first that good citizens might see simply as rules like a "stand behind the yellow line" sign at a train stop. We get so used to these things we come to accept them and fail to see some of the really dangerous things when they slip by.
Here's one related to healthcare and how, if allowed, government will always seek to take over more of your decisions and thus your freedoms. As part of the state's own public healthcare plan we are not allowed to file our taxes unless we submit proof that we have a healthcare plan of some kind. There is of course no connection between the two except that they have you by the proverbial cojones. Who makes such abusive rules up and where does that mentality come from?
Our apparatus of government has, over the years, taken a decidedly anti-citizen direction through an abusive usurpation of authority they are not entitled to. In the view of lofty government hacks we owe to them rather than the reverse; we are serfs. Need money? Tax the serfs. Afraid they'll complain? Enact legislation that makes it harder and harder to do nothing more than comply or be hauled in.
As we head more and more toward a totalitarian state via anti-citizen laws and presidential appointees who openly state that their mentors, heroes and guides through life are people like Mao Tse Tung, Castro, and Hugo Chavez we should know that there is nothing too radical to employ in seeing to it that Obama and his radicals - his morons too - are expunged from the political landscape in this country. We are in a dog fight. I've considered joining pro-Obama groups where I might find a way to wreak a little havoc. Could be fun but the first place is in our own states where our voices must be added to and made loud.
Also, as a pretty savvy, educated and forward thinking white guy I've been impressed by a group of folks from Project21, a group of conservative Black Americans who've received too little attention, particularly from the Republican party which is a disaster right now and probably - my prediction - will not field a viable candidate in 2012 against an Obama who's record by then will be full of buckshot if not bullshit. We are in the same life raft and can't ignore what we have in common.
In the 60's the left was all about "1984" and government control. Citizens - 1984 is arrived and the left has brought it.
Robert Norwood
rnorwood1@gmail.com
Massachusetts - The Nanny State