re: Is there anyone who doubts the federal government is a quasi crime syndicate?

After the los Angeles fires, senator Elizabeth Warren said if you want to help the victims, donate your money to Act Blue to help them. Our leaders are worse than mafia.

Yes, I doubt this incredibly stupid statement.

I not only deny the allegations, I deny the alligator.

Fun fact that USAID funded EcoHealth Alliance which paid the Wuhan lab to develop Covid.

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The way we are taxed and the abundance of entitlements that form a “safety net” for the able-bodied makes me think this is not hyperbole.

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Socialism is an economic and political system advocating collective or government ownership/control of the means of production (like factories, resources) for equitable wealth distribution, aiming for community welfare over individual profit, often seen as an alternative or critique of capitalism's inequality, with variations from state-controlled economies (communism) to democratic socialism's mix with market systems, providing universal services like healthcare and education

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You can see that we fall well to the right of the range of socialism. Even countries like the UK, Sweden and Germany would barely qualify as practicing socialism using the most right wing definition of it.

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Scream louder. I think there's a portion of the sky in the northwest that may not have heard you.

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Nice response to the O.P.

At least you’re highly predictable if nothing else.

Care to share your knowledge with the board and offer some insight that factually counters any of the concerns expressed by the O.P. ?

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You can see that we fall well to the right of the range of socialism. Even countries like the UK, Sweden and Germany would barely qualify as practicing socialism using the most right wing definition of it.

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I read the definition also. I agree that we do meet that definition. The hyperbolic statements me and others made have made are from a place of frustration and disgust because we see and feel the over-taxation.

We see the distribution of those taxes (through legislation and sometimes unilaterally) to others under the guise of a social safety net or ‘the general welfare’ of the country. The ACA is government meddling in what should be a private industry resulting in a calamitous effect on the populous. Banks, the machinations of housing and auto industries are bailed out because of gross mismanagement or government monetary policies. Foreign aid and disastrous military actions are paid for with the fruit of our labor through legal theft under threat of fine or incarceration backed up by armed state enforcers. Crony capitalism, special interests (bribery by lobbyists), and officials elected on a quid pro quo basis by both national and foreign donors inject generational wealth into a systemically created elite class .

Almost all of these things are legislated, signed into law and almost always hold up when challenged judicially. The counter argument is this is the result of our representative republic in action. Maybe I am being hyperbolic because I see our end of year wages statement and the lunacy of what was taken without consent and imagining its use by our “whatever the frick the form of government we live under”.

Sorry for the novel.

That’s funny…and thanks. I often feel like I don’t have a political ‘home’, but my beliefs are sincere and not grounded in any ‘movement’.

We all bought the lie that our FBI and DOJ were here to prevent theft, fraud and crime. We thought we had laws to prevent this stuff.

The REALITY, is these institutions cover up government grift and fraud and the laws are designed to to go after people that don’t play the game.

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Care to share your knowledge with the board and offer some insight that factually counters any of the concerns expressed by the O.P. ?

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If it doesn't involve grooming children, excusing left wing political violence, covering for pedophiles, or deflecting from obvious fraud, VOR has nothing to contribute.