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Old 03-30-2010, 08:15 AM
 
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When politicians waste their resources and taxpayer dollars on telling other people how to dress we have lost all semblance of what the role of govt ought to be. our founders would be ashamed of us as we so frivilously abandon the freedoms they fought so valiantly for!

New York politician hopes to end youths' pants-sagging trend - CNN.com

i think saggy pants look ridiculous but politicians involving themselves in the wardrobes of citizens is outright treasonous!
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Old 03-30-2010, 08:20 AM
 
Location: South Fla
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I must agree.

Bigger gov = less freedom.
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Old 03-30-2010, 08:27 AM
 
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We are all Free to $upport (as well as $pecial interests/lobbyists) the US Government politicians where most of them wouldn't be able to hack it in the REAL WORLD.
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Old 03-30-2010, 08:27 AM
 
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I must agree.

Bigger gov = less freedom.


trust me. we're in the minority. the state sen in question has pages and pages of support on facebook. it really is quite sad that these morons have no clue about the precedent they're setting.
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Old 03-30-2010, 08:29 AM
 
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When politicians waste their resources and taxpayer dollars on telling other people how to dress we have lost all semblance of what the role of govt ought to be. our founders would be ashamed of us as we so frivilously abandon the freedoms they fought so valiantly for!

New York politician hopes to end youths' pants-sagging trend - CNN.com

i think saggy pants look ridiculous but politicians involving themselves in the wardrobes of citizens is outright treasonous!

Treasonous? Really? That is a word flung about this forum with regularity and yet rarely used correctly. Silly statement by a politician yes; but, not treasonous.


Saggy pants make it much easier to catch up with these losers when they perpetrate a crime. Pretty difficult to run down the street while holding up one's pants.
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Old 03-30-2010, 08:39 AM
 
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Treasonous? Really? That is a word flung about this forum with regularity and yet rarely used correctly. Silly statement by a politician yes; but, not treasonous.


Saggy pants make it much easier to catch up with these losers when they perpetrate a crime. Pretty difficult to run down the street while holding up one's pants.

there aren't any other words which portray the kind of deep seated contempt i have for people who abuse their public positions and taxpayer money to forward their pathetic, freedom infringing agendas. we were warned repeatedly that if we allowed the govt to overstep the boundaries once, there would be no end to what they would do. this is proof that those fears were well founded
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Old 03-30-2010, 08:40 AM
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Government once was there to protect our personal freedoms and regulate those things that could impact upon are right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Somewhere along the line the idea got switched around and they have taken to regulating our personal freedoms and protecting those whose greed impacts upon our rights.
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Old 03-30-2010, 08:47 AM
 
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there aren't any other words which portray the kind of deep seated contempt i have for people who abuse their public positions and taxpayer money to forward their pathetic, freedom infringing agendas. we were warned repeatedly that if we allowed the govt to overstep the boundaries once, there would be no end to what they would do. this is proof that those fears were well founded
Its a bit late and outrage over a silly politician's position on saggy pants is just that....silly.

Outrage belongs with the bailouts, the nationalization of private industry, the HC takeover and the loss of medical record privacy, redistribution of wealth/reparations of taxpayer money to special interest groups (public and private sectors), etc....

Saggy pants and table salt....not so much. It makes the NY politicians look silly for being such micro-managing nannies.
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Old 03-30-2010, 08:48 AM
 
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Agreed. There are plenty more important things to do that this idiocy.
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Old 03-30-2010, 08:49 AM
 
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Government once was there to protect our personal freedoms and regulate those things that could impact upon are right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Somewhere along the line the idea got switched around and they have taken to regulating our personal freedoms and protecting those whose greed impacts upon our rights.

It happened while we were sleeping.
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