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You know your government is owned when...

Unread postby seldom_seen » Fri 21 Dec 2007, 17:37:16

The "Environmental Protection Agency" becomes a front group for the auto industry.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'C')alifornia has passed legislation requiring car-makers to cut vehicle emissions by 30 per cent by 2016.

But the US Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA, has refused to grant the waiver needed for the legislation to take effect.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007 ... 124825.htm


What else? Suggestions?

When the FDA is run by pharmaceutical industry executives.

When the Whitehouse is run by private oil companies.
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Re: You know your government is owned when...

Unread postby Aimrehtopyh » Mon 24 Dec 2007, 01:16:32

When Education is funded with advertising.

When your voting machines are made overseas.

When your energy policy is written by the same guys who profit from energy crises.

When you can be jailed for illegally possessing seeds that contain patented genes.

When obese retirees can get federal dollars to buy a "mobility solution" with no questions asked, but dental check-ups for high-schoolers is a cost that's just too onerous for the government to bear.

When inflation is calculated without including the necessities of life.

When the war on poverty starts using actual bullets.

Excuse me for a moment while I get you a fresh cup of coffee, the elephant in the room just took a dump in the one you're sipping from.

Should I be worried that military recruiters now occupy more storefront than bookstores?
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Re: You know your government is owned when...

Unread postby I_Like_Plants » Mon 24 Dec 2007, 02:39:51

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Aimrehtopyh', 'W')hen Education is funded with advertising.

When your voting machines are made overseas.

When your energy policy is written by the same guys who profit from energy crises.

When you can be jailed for illegally possessing seeds that contain patented genes.

When obese retirees can get federal dollars to buy a "mobility solution" with no questions asked, but dental check-ups for high-schoolers is a cost that's just too onerous for the government to bear.

When inflation is calculated without including the necessities of life.

When the war on poverty starts using actual bullets.

Excuse me for a moment while I get you a fresh cup of coffee, the elephant in the room just took a dump in the one you're sipping from.

Should I be worried that military recruiters now occupy more storefront than bookstores?


All you said [smilie=5badair.gif] Right On.
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Re: You know your government is owned when...

Unread postby kadoomsoon » Mon 24 Dec 2007, 02:47:10

When it passes laws the people do not want and suspend the peoples right to habeus corpus.
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Re: You know your government is owned when...

Unread postby paimei01 » Mon 24 Dec 2007, 08:48:39

When you use voting machines instead of pieces of paper, and when the voting machines do not print the vote on a piece of paper. In a supermarket you get a receipt with what you bought.
Voting with real votes is harder to falsify, not impossible, but voting with no physical evidence it's like leaving the door open
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$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A')s for electronic voting, Gould said he preferred Venezuela's system over the calculator-sized touchpads in Miami. "Each electronic vote in Venezuela also produces a ticket that voters then drop into a ballot box," Gould said. "Unlike fully electronic systems, this gives a backup that can be used to counter claims of massive fraud."


Because your country uses electronic voting with no receipts I personally do not trust that you are a democracy anymore. Just from this formal procedure, a little detail maybe, the real problems are elsewhere, but if small problems are not solved , big problems will not be either
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Re: You know your government is owned when...

Unread postby jupiters_release » Mon 24 Dec 2007, 10:20:06

...when a private bank creates all of a nation's currency from nothing, then gets to charge and collect interest(sophisticated tithing) on the entire money supply. Kinda hard to find better proof imo of absolute oligarchy.
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Re: You know your government is owned when...

Unread postby virgincrude » Mon 24 Dec 2007, 10:30:57

Err .. Conspiracy Theory anyone?

Tin Foil Hats for all, even non-believers?

You're all absolutely correct, and I'm suprised nobody's jumped on you yet calling you "conspiracy theory nuts" or "left-wing liberal left-brainers" or some other convenient label...

Maybe you missed one out on the list;

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Re: You know your government is owned when...

Unread postby kadoomsoon » Mon 24 Dec 2007, 11:37:02

Jefferson and Washington saw it all coming, and they really made a great defensive wall, took 200 years to breach it.
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Re: You know your government is owned when...

Unread postby virgincrude » Mon 24 Dec 2007, 13:51:46

Kadoomsoon: "gooegle." "RomPall" "Shut up, you know nothingk. Precedence: Jermany, Rusha, Chima, Burnna, Noerth Korrea, Quba"

Please, leave off the moonshine before you post :P
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Re: You know your government is owned when...

Unread postby eastbay » Mon 24 Dec 2007, 14:03:40

.... when the government is told to allow 1,000,000 illegals to enter the USA each year.
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Re: You know your government is owned when...

Unread postby kadoomsoon » Mon 24 Dec 2007, 14:41:17

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('virgincrude', 'K')adoomsoon: "gooegle." "RomPall" "Shut up, you know nothingk. Precedence: Jermany, Rusha, Chima, Burnna, Noerth Korrea, Quba"

Please, leave off the moonshine before you post :P

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Re: You know your government is owned when...

Unread postby Iaato » Mon 24 Dec 2007, 15:10:24

our capital assets get sold to foreign countries. Investment banks, electric companies; maybe national parks are next.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '"')Rising commodity prices and the rapid growth of nations such as China have given some $2 trillion of assets to sovereign funds. Many of the funds are seeking higher returns by taking stakes in investment firms abroad.

Banks are paying high prices for the capital, but working with sovereign funds can allow for a quick infusion of equity, without a public offering that discloses the firm's financial details."


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