This was in response to a comment that a person made that they wish Bush was still in office....
While I am a moderate and do support some republican ideals just about any other republican in office would be better than Bush. He broke away from the ideals of the Republican party of smaller government and individual rights and tried to replace them with war-mongering and control. The decisions and bold-headed corruption and cohercion in his administration will be notorious. I believe in freedom from tyranny but GW just added more under a different banner.
I am concerned about a President that smokes and yet passes legislation and raises taxes on tobacco. I find it interesting the hypocrisy (sp?) of tobacco legislation and yet the Liqour industry rolls ahead unchecked in this country. I believe that we are entering again a time of taxation without representation as while we elect our officials so much money and bribery occurs from big business and interest groups that the people are often forgotten.
People have been doing all sorts of things with tobacco in this country well before the U.S. even was a country. George Washington smoked marijuana as well, does that get waived in also? I believe there are other ways to handle smokers other than taxing the heck out of it. Should SUV and truck drivers pay more for their vehicle license because they use more gas and the wt. degrades the roads faster? Should cheap liquor like vodka be taxed higher because alcholics prefer it because of its price point to curb alcholism? Should fast food be taxed because of obesity trends in the US? Why not, the EU does.
All the while they take our money, give it to the banks, buy more tanks, sell them so we need to buy more tanks to defend against them, and dump more money into bearucratic depots like the FDA and Homeland Security. Meanwhile, our pay goes down, and our healthcare goes up. Imagine the gains our country would have had if we spent the money on the Iraq war on educating our youth or building factories for our workers or God forbid payed people to clean up our natural resources so we could have a cleaner world for our kids. Perhaps we could have educated our inmates so when they came out they would actually have a future instead of returning empty handed back to their communities to hustle again to eat and live a comfortable life. Heck we could have built so much in Afghanistan and gained more political sway in the muslim war. I would have much rather the government enable people to suceed and begin to break up the monoplies that already exist. Research Alteira some time. The company that owns the evil tobacco company also owns Kraft food. If they poison you with cigarettes do you not think they would not hesitate to poison you with their food either? It's all politics, and the 'Change' isn't revolutionary enough, instead we waste time with worrying about oh God the Swedes and their dang Snus.
I'm glad that Swedish Match has stated that they can work through this under the new system and it appears that others are confident that any actual changes will be a while coming. Hopefully by then we will be able to drive somewhere within a few miles to get our evil 'snus'. I also hope that Internet retailers will be able to continue to sell their products as well. I think these bills are more geared towards Cigarettes than snus anyway.
I'm tired of talking heads, political pawns and television dictating to the masses. If Bush was such a great leader where is he now that his party has lost so much political muscle? Who do you see, but Cheney out there promoting more security and war because after all he was a board member of the largest private payed supplier of the U.S. military, Blackwater, er Q or V or whatever they changed it to.
While I am a moderate and do support some republican ideals just about any other republican in office would be better than Bush. He broke away from the ideals of the Republican party of smaller government and individual rights and tried to replace them with war-mongering and control. The decisions and bold-headed corruption and cohercion in his administration will be notorious. I believe in freedom from tyranny but GW just added more under a different banner.
I am concerned about a President that smokes and yet passes legislation and raises taxes on tobacco. I find it interesting the hypocrisy (sp?) of tobacco legislation and yet the Liqour industry rolls ahead unchecked in this country. I believe that we are entering again a time of taxation without representation as while we elect our officials so much money and bribery occurs from big business and interest groups that the people are often forgotten.
People have been doing all sorts of things with tobacco in this country well before the U.S. even was a country. George Washington smoked marijuana as well, does that get waived in also? I believe there are other ways to handle smokers other than taxing the heck out of it. Should SUV and truck drivers pay more for their vehicle license because they use more gas and the wt. degrades the roads faster? Should cheap liquor like vodka be taxed higher because alcholics prefer it because of its price point to curb alcholism? Should fast food be taxed because of obesity trends in the US? Why not, the EU does.
All the while they take our money, give it to the banks, buy more tanks, sell them so we need to buy more tanks to defend against them, and dump more money into bearucratic depots like the FDA and Homeland Security. Meanwhile, our pay goes down, and our healthcare goes up. Imagine the gains our country would have had if we spent the money on the Iraq war on educating our youth or building factories for our workers or God forbid payed people to clean up our natural resources so we could have a cleaner world for our kids. Perhaps we could have educated our inmates so when they came out they would actually have a future instead of returning empty handed back to their communities to hustle again to eat and live a comfortable life. Heck we could have built so much in Afghanistan and gained more political sway in the muslim war. I would have much rather the government enable people to suceed and begin to break up the monoplies that already exist. Research Alteira some time. The company that owns the evil tobacco company also owns Kraft food. If they poison you with cigarettes do you not think they would not hesitate to poison you with their food either? It's all politics, and the 'Change' isn't revolutionary enough, instead we waste time with worrying about oh God the Swedes and their dang Snus.
I'm glad that Swedish Match has stated that they can work through this under the new system and it appears that others are confident that any actual changes will be a while coming. Hopefully by then we will be able to drive somewhere within a few miles to get our evil 'snus'. I also hope that Internet retailers will be able to continue to sell their products as well. I think these bills are more geared towards Cigarettes than snus anyway.
I'm tired of talking heads, political pawns and television dictating to the masses. If Bush was such a great leader where is he now that his party has lost so much political muscle? Who do you see, but Cheney out there promoting more security and war because after all he was a board member of the largest private payed supplier of the U.S. military, Blackwater, er Q or V or whatever they changed it to.
lucky's one of THEM!!! 
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