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Who rights are more important?
May 12, 2008 | 1:10 PM
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We as a nation have been bombarded over the last couple of years with question after question about who's rights are more important. Radical left wingers VS conservative right wingers, (and all those in the middle) Pro-War VS Anti-War, For universal health care, against universal health care.

Smoking VS Obesity, (which of these two actually cost the taxpayers of this nation more in health care dollars?) Obesity cost's taxpayers over 200,000 million dollars more each year then smoking, yet there is no fat food tax at the drive through!! Yet smokers have to pay a additional tax to fund the "perception" that the money is going to fight the health care costs.

Activists should fight every fight if they want to single out one. For instance, you want to talk about how you worry that my second hand smoke is bothering and hurting you, yet you go places where you KNOW people will be smoking. You have already pushed us out just about as far as we are going let you. We feel that with the no smoking bans in Motels and Hotels, Office Buildings, Malls, Sporting Arena's and even at some restaurants, that is far enough.  But it is no longer okay for you to just keep piling on and riding the "morality bandwagon" when you look right past the other things that are far more important and never "okay."  Then you remain silent.

Like these topics:
1) Smoking VS Alcohol, which one of these actually kills more people each year?
2) The killing of innocent people: Gangs VS Religion?
3) Graduation rates: Suburbs VS inner city?
4) Babies raised poor and in absolute Poverty and raised by only one parent: Suburbs VS Inner City?
5) Freedom of the Iraqi people VS the lives of our US Soldiers?
6)  Tax dollars to fund Immigration migration VS Health care for all CURRENT U.S. children of school age?
7)  Spend Trillions of dollars paying other countries for their oil and making them rich VS drilling for own oil and paying them nothing? 

It is time that we as a society start talking about some much more serious issues and not our own simple agenda's.
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garageman read my blog view my photos
May 12, 2008 | 2:36 PM

The new heavy seven!! Did you ever feel more like you were banging your head against the wall than when discussing any one of the things on your list?
Wolfman07 read my blog view my photos
May 12, 2008 | 2:40 PM

oh yea!! What do you think about it? What can you add?
TonyAdina read my blog
May 12, 2008 | 5:44 PM

Wolf -- the "war on drugs" SCARES the hell out of me!! WERE LOSING!!I dont think I know of many families who havent been "touched" by drugs OR alcohol for that matter!!!

This was a GREAT post Wolf .... I feel the bottom line to be "we need to start taking care of our country -- we are crashin' pretty fast" (in ALL aspects)
Wolfman07 read my blog view my photos
May 12, 2008 | 6:04 PM

Thanks tonyadina, and you are right about the war on drugs. I guess what I was saying was that it is time that we jump off of the redundant arguments and start concentrating on us. I know we can't just bring the troops home, but start by bringing home my brother, my sister, my niece or nephew, my son or my daughter. We did our job liberating Iraq and now is time that we start leaving. I need those dollars to start flowing back into my neighborhoods, and my life. My children deserve that, and so do yours.

Thanks for the comments as well.
adoseoftruth read my blog
May 12, 2008 | 6:06 PM

On too many issues, we make social judgements vs letting it be a market issue and at the same time, a little bit of our liberty evaperates.

Current War on Drugs expense:

Between Fed, state and the running total is just under 19 Billion. That is this year alone.

http://www.drugsense.org/wodclock.htm
alabamaslammer read my blog
May 12, 2008 | 6:47 PM

I don't think a lot of these battles are as black and white you make them. Like all of the inner city and suburb ones.
aaro-nf read my blog view my photos
May 12, 2008 | 7:12 PM

great job on the postng fo this blog.
garageman read my blog view my photos
May 12, 2008 | 9:37 PM

I stepped out to do some actual work for a few hours....
The one hot button issue that gets me is Roe vs Wade. Doesn't ANYBODY remember all those girls who bled to death from back alley abortions with coat hangers? Didn't we decide that certain women would rather risk, and more often than not lose their own lives, than deliver a child no matter what? And that it was better to save the life of the woman by making abortion safe and legal than to lose mother AND child?? We decided that...DIDN'T we???

Please don't start another firestorm of comments. I'm neither for nor against. I just wanted to demonstrate a hot button issue that people on either side of the issue will support and defend their position to an extreme degree. All the while, neither side giving an inch toward the other.

Some issues it seems, cannot be resolved. What bothers me the most is some peoples inability to let other people be. If you do not believe as they believe it's somehow their duty to convince you to come to their side. Proclaiming, oh so vociferously, their righteous indignation when you do not. Ultimately damning you to eternal fire and brimstone, or perhaps the smoking lounge, because of your unyielding passion for being left alone.
Katbird read my blog view my photos
May 12, 2008 | 11:00 PM

That was so well-written, garageman.
It represents exactly how I feel. These issues are not black and white issues. There are many shades of grey. It's all a matter of compromise and logic. The happy middle ground. We must respect each other and be willing to compromise on issues and work with each other. That takes level heads and negotiation.
Maybe that's why humans have always had conflict. It has to all or nothing for most people.
TonyAdina read my blog
May 13, 2008 | 8:46 AM

Wolf - thanks for clearing up my "mis-reading"... Where would WE BEGIN?? OR HOW?? I guess I just get so angry, Yes, we all have opinions but when are we EVER going to find a middle ground to "speak" to EACH OTHER? We have a huge war right on this Web-Site about a wedding!! I have to quote Kat "that takes level heads and negotiation" It's all sooooo grey to me....................
Snowhawk read my blog view my photos
May 13, 2008 | 11:18 AM

Why is it such a surprize to people today that we are loosing the war on drugs? Who do you think started this idea of pushing drugs? Who do you think said these words?
"Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future."
"Our strategy is to destroy the enemy from within, to conquer him through himself."
Adlof Hitler
Wolfman07 read my blog view my photos
May 13, 2008 | 1:05 PM

The bottom line to my posting is this:

We can talk about banning smoking, banning cars from releasing carbon monoxide, paint being made with lead, SUV's that average 5 mpg or less, or anything else that we don't like. But your desires do not, and will not ever trump mine. That is the mentality of todays society. I want this so I am going to piss and moan and cower and cry because I don't get my way. It is time that we stop calling attention to JUST ourselves and try and find solutions to those issues that effect us all, as one.
Snowhawk, that quote is very timely. Nice job. Communication is the answer, debate is the answer, and comprise is how it is done.
Wolfman07 read my blog view my photos
May 13, 2008 | 1:11 PM

Like bringing back GOD into our schools. Why is that prisoners get daily visits and our children get nothing? Where is our moral fortitude and our feelings of love and help thy neighbor, not fear or be envious of him?

How about the destruction of our schools from the lack of moral guidance and examples? We know that this isn't just a black and white issue, it is a societal issue. We parents in poor neighbors spend more time finding their drug or alcohol fixes instead of fixing their families, ask again why our schools are not graduating kids. The same kids who's parents never appear for a single conference. They just don't care. Any more topics?
Snowhawk read my blog view my photos
May 13, 2008 | 3:02 PM

Just to let you know, I'm not a big fan of Adolf Hitler at all. It is just that I remember that from History lessons in school, then found it on the Internet at http://bluwiki.com/go/HITLER'S_SAYINGS . Funny thing: I can't remember what I had for breakfast but I can remember my History lessons from 40 years ago. Geesh!
Wolfman07 read my blog view my photos
May 13, 2008 | 3:27 PM

I understand Sanowhawk, nor am I a fan of Hitlers. He was a tyrant who lasted too long in power. We the people can change the pack, it just takes two people at a time. Then it is four people at a time, then eight and so on. As he said in the movie "Pay It Forward", "I thought I could start a chain reaction of normal people doing good things for others in repayment for what someone did for them. That is what my summer project is about."
I once wrote a quote for something other then this blogging, but it fit's now as it did then:

"Change takes place when you least expect it. Demand it and become bitter by it's ignorance. Allowing it to happen on it's own exemplifies and explains it's meaning.
Wolfman07 read my blog view my photos
May 13, 2008 | 3:28 PM

Snowhawk, I apologize for the misspelling above.
MrsTracy read my blog view my photos
May 13, 2008 | 7:48 PM

I love each and every topic, and no matter what side of the debate you are on for any of them, you are going to loose. You will loose because no matter what, it isn't going to be good enough if it is anything at all.

I wish that normal people could have a say in our laws. No, voting doesn't really give us a say because we only get to vote for our representatives who make lots of promises until they are actually in office. Then they get to decide how they are going to vote no matter what the voters in their area want. I think that the people who make our decisions are so far removed from what it is like to actually have to work and support a family that they don't even know how to even start to THINK about voting with our best interests in mind.
garageman read my blog view my photos
May 14, 2008 | 9:58 AM

MrsTracy has struck a chord with me. You hear people say all the time that "We live in a Democracy", well actually we live in a Democratic Republic. In a Democracy everybody WOULD have a say in EVERYTHING that is currently decided by the elected representatives in our Democratic Republic. If you think the government responds slowly now, how quickly do you think things would get done if everybody "had their say"? But she is right though. As I have stated in earlier posts, all too often the government usurps the will of the people in favor of what "it" thinks is best.
MrsTracy read my blog view my photos
May 14, 2008 | 11:54 AM

It is all about party lines. If you don't vote with your party, then you are scum. They don't care about what is right or fair, they only care about what the "party" thinks. And that is on BOTH sides. They don't represent us at all. They throw small bones at us here and there, like this "stimulus" package, and that is it. We have to fight for basic and common sense type laws to be passed. Like dealing with criminals. They seem to have more rights than victims. Or look at our drunk driving laws right here. What are they doing about them? NOTHING, AND people are fighting very hard to get the laws changed. But our lawmakers don't even give it a second look. Unless it is election time and whatever is up there happens to be a "hot" topic. Then they will give it their undivided attention so that they "look" like they are working for the good of the people. It is all a load of BLEEP.
MrsTracy read my blog view my photos
May 14, 2008 | 11:54 AM

It is all about party lines. If you don't vote with your party, then you are scum. They don't care about what is right or fair, they only care about what the "party" thinks. And that is on BOTH sides. They don't represent us at all. They throw small bones at us here and there, like this "stimulus" package, and that is it. We have to fight for basic and common sense type laws to be passed. Like dealing with criminals. They seem to have more rights than victims. Or look at our drunk driving laws right here. What are they doing about them? NOTHING, AND people are fighting very hard to get the laws changed. But our lawmakers don't even give it a second look. Unless it is election time and whatever is up there happens to be a "hot" topic. Then they will give it their undivided attention so that they "look" like they are working for the good of the people. It is all a load of BLEEP.
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