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Re: Things the State Wants Us to Be Scared Of

Willink — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 17:50:16 GMT

Deflation and high interest rates.

Re: Things the State Wants Us to Be Scared Of

MMMark — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:29:45 GMT

Tues. 10/03/23 11:31 EDT
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limitgov:
please add some more...

- AIDS
- "mental illness"
- "global warming"
- "hate speech"
- suicide
- free access to drugs
- guns
- polygamy
- unpasteurized milk
- cigarettes
- "anarchy"
- "unprotected" sex
- "porous" borders
- smuggling
- liberty

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

ATTRIBUTION: H. L. MENCKEN,
'Women as Outlaws," A Mencken Chrestomathy, p. 29 (1949). This essay was first published in The Smart Set, December 1921.

http://www.bartleby.com/73/1421.html

Re: Things the State Wants Us to Be Scared Of

Nielsio — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:21:15 GMT

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Re: Things the State Wants Us to Be Scared Of

Giant_Joe — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:18:39 GMT

Not using a government-approved bank for anything to do with money.

Using money that isn't government-approved.

Things the State Wants Us to Be Scared Of

limitgov — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:16:18 GMT

There seems to be a long list of stuff the government wants us to be scared of.

I have trouble keeping up sometimes:

- the flu...bird flu, h1n1....flu in general....

- terrorism....it can strike from anywhere....from anyone...even from home grown terrorists....

- economic collapse....prices could fall so low everyone would go crazy...prices could rise too high...jobs can be lost...greedy businessmen and bankers could steal billions of our dollars....

- snakeoil salesmen....they could sell us something that could harm us....or worse...kill us....

- vitamins and supplements...they could harm us and even kill us if we are not careful about what we purchase...

the list goes on and on....

please add some more...