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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (341307)	6/25/2007 2:43:24 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574589

OTOH I'm not so sure you are comfortable with choice. Sure you like choice in this particular issue, but your rather comfortable with having more and more choices made by government. How so? You support having more and more decisions about how money is spent being made by government than by private citizens, with more and more government programs, and more extensive regulation. I believe you oppose allowing people the choice to use drugs, or exchange money for sex. I don't think you have a problem with governments removing the choice of restaurant, bar, and club owners to allow smoking in their facility. That's just a start. I didn't search through your 70,000+ posts to look for examples, I'm just going from what I remember. These choices you are discussing up above are not ones arbitrarily established by gov't. Most if not all of them are simply the gov't implementing the will of the people. Some I agree with; some I don't. I see that as a cost of living in a democratic society. Because I am willing to pay that cost does not make me uncomfortable with choice as you seem to conclude up above. In fact, I would turn the whole argument back on you..........your extreme frustration with gov't telling you what you can and can not do does not sound like an issue about choice but rather it seems to have more to do with immaturity. After all, its kids who rebel when told what they can and can not do.