Originally Posted by
Bob21
I'm going to have to come to Mickey's defense on this one, even though I know he doesn't need anybody to defend him.
Kj, your statement is right out of the liberal playbook. You are so indoctrinated with liberal ideas, you probably don't even know you're doing it. Liberals love to use this kind of argument against conservatives. They say we use government programs, so how can we claim to be against them? In their warped little minds they see this as being a hypocrite. They think its being contradictory.
Here's a newsflash for you Kj. You can be against a government program and still use it.
A great example is Social Security. I think social security is the worst government program ever. I mean it was voted unconstitutional by our Supreme Court. The only way FDR got it passed is by stacking the Supreme Court.
In a free country, I don't think the government should be able to force me to set aside some of my earnings for my retirement. This should be my choice. I should get to do with my money as I want.
But this is now outside my control, since our federal government has passed the Social Security law, so I abide by the law and pay my social security taxes. I do this so I don't go to jail. I don't do it because I think it's a good program. I'd much rather keep all my money and invest it or spend it the way I wanted.
But guess what I'll do when I come of age to start collecting social security, I'll use it. Why? Because I've probably paid at least a million dollars into it. And just because I use it that doesn't mean I agree with it. I know this is a hard concept for liberals to understand.
This is what I've been trying to explain to accountinquestion; there are many laws I don't agree with, but I still abide by them since I don't want to go to jail. That's what accountinquestion should be doing to stay out of jail. He seems to like to smoke weed in states where he knows it's against the law, and he could go to jail. This makes no sense to me. I hope accountinquestion leans to abide by our laws, so he can stay out of jail. He seems like a good guy.