If you can get arrested for hunting or fishing without a license, but
not for being in the country illegally ... you might live in a country
founded by geniuses but run by idiots.
You can, and many do get arrested for being illegally residing in the country. That said, prove to me that there is no benefit to having the illegal population here, or even that there are more drawbacks than benefits.
The 11 million that live here illegally would beg to differ. I don't have to prove anything, illegal is illegal. Kinda like having to fight the gun grabbers when the 2nd Amendment was decided 200+ years ago.
If you have to get your parents' permission to go on a field trip or
take an aspirin in school, but not to get an abortion ... you might
live in a country founded by geniuses but run by idiots.
I tend to think that the choice of whether or not to have a child in school is a larger and far longer lasting choice than whether or not to take a pain killer…the person who will be responsible for the consequences should always be the one to have the choice.
Children are not adults and they don't get to make their own choices until they are. Parents PROTECT their children from those kinds of consequences.
If the only school curriculum allowed to explain how we got here is
evolution, but the government stops a $15 million construction project
to keep a rare spider from evolving to extinction ... you might live
in a country founded by geniuses but run by idiots.
Our encroachment on the territory of species, and the subsequent annihilation of numerous species due to our greed has very little to do with the scientific theory of evolution. This is a false equivalence.
No, but it's still hypocritical for the state to allow one, but totallally ban the other.
If you have to show identification to board an airplane, cash a check,
buy liquor, or check out a library book, but not to vote who runs the
government ... you might live in a country founded by geniuses but run
by idiots.
Fraudulent voting practices by non-eligible people is a myth, it simply doesn’t happen nearly often enough to matter.
I call BS; we don't know how big a problem because we are not allowed to check. And if it doesn't matter, then why the big fight against it?
If the government wants to ban stable, law-abiding citizens from
owning gun magazines with more than ten rounds, but gives 20 F-16
fighter jets to the crazy new leaders in Egypt ... you might live in a
country founded by geniuses but run by idiots.
This, on the other hand, I completely agree with…though it’s not because they’re stupid, it’s because they’re greedy.
Oh, it's really because they are greedy AND stupid.....
If, in the largest city, you can buy two 16-ounce sodas, but not a
24-ounce soda because 24-ounces of a sugary drink might make you fat
... you might live in a country founded by geniuses but run by idiots.
Again, not stupid, but greedy. and stupid
If an 80-year-old woman can be stripped searched by the TSA but a
woman in a hijab is only subject to having her neck and head searched
... you might live in a country founded by geniuses but run by idiots.
If they’re strip searching 80 year olds, you can be sure that they’re strip searching muslim women…though why you should be any more suspicious of the muslim woman than the 80 year old, I’m not sure.
As the Isralies why...
If your government believes that the best way to eradicate trillions
of dollars of debt is to spend trillions more ... you might live in a
country founded by geniuses but run by idiots.
Not sure when this suddenly became an issue…we’ve been recklessly spending on items that don’t benefit the country as a whole for decades now.
Have you looked at the line chart lately? In the last 4 years we TRIPLED the ENTIRE debt more of all the other Presidents COMBINED. Yes, we've spent recklessly, but not even close to the scale/pace of the last 4 years.
If a seven year old boy can be thrown out of school for saying his
teacher is "cute", but hosting a sexual exploration or diversity class
in grade school is perfectly acceptable ... you might live in a
country founded by geniuses but run by idiots.
Another false equivalence. A “sexual exploration or diversity†class, while sounding risqué, only serves to teach our young Americans that people of all faiths, creeds, and sexual orientations are equal in this country, as protected by the constitution.
NOT A SEVEN YEAR OLD IN FIRST GRADE. He/She does not have the knowlege, maturity or reasoning capacity to understand NEITHER. This teaching belongs to the PARENT, NOT a school system or government agency. You got any kids?
If children are forcibly removed from parents who discipline them with
spankings while children of addicts are left in filth and drug
infested ?homes?... you might live in a country founded by geniuses
but run by idiots.
Find me some statistics of how many children are being put into foster homes for spankings by the parents, as compared to children taken from the homes of drug addicts and I might accept this, until that time, this is simple rhetoric not backed up by factual data.
I don't have to find statistics, it's stupid based on it's own merits...
If hard work and success are met with higher taxes and more government
intrusion, while not working is rewarded with EBT cards, WIC checks,
Medicaid, subsidized housing, and free cell phones ... you might live
in a country founded by geniuses but run by idiots.
Being low income does not necessarily mean that one is not a hard worker, simply that one has not yet managed to overcome whatever struggles the person in question is currently working through. Oh, and free cell phones (Obamaphones) don’t really exist, that’s a myth.
Tell it to the woman who had 20 and bragged about how she didn't pay for any of them...
If the government's plan for getting people back to work is to be an
incentive NOT working with 99 weeks of Unemployment checks and no
requirement to prove they applied but can't find work ... you might
live in a country founded by geniuses but run by idiots.
Not sure how you think that UI doesn’t require documentation of active job searching, but you’re flat wrong. Considering the horrible job environment and the hesitancy of companies to hire in the last few years, preventing a massive falloff in consumer activity would only end in a further worsening of the economy, leading to a furthering spiral.
Have you ever seen someone 'search'? I have. Someone walks into the door, unkempt, sagging, needs a shave and asks "are you hiring?" You say "No", they say "OK" and call that an 'active search'; now gimme my check. 3 years isn't unemployment, that's WELFARE, and should be debated as such. Eventually, there has to be some weaning off UI, say after a year or two it goes down 10% a month; eventually we will find that 'sweet spot' where people will find a job instead of taking UI, and it will be easy to see. I had a customer who hired a guy to start 5 Jan; when he didn't show they called him and his response was "oh, the congress extended my benefits"...consumer activity founded by public DEBT is a fools game.
If you pay your mortgage faithfully, denying yourself the newest big
screen TV while your neighbor buys iPhones, TV's and new cars, and the
government forgives his debt when he defaults on his mortgage ... you
might live in a country founded by geniuses but run by idiots.
In general, when someone defaults on their payments, there are several actions that can be taken to recover that debt; liens on income, repo and auction of property, and potentially repossessing of vehicles and housing (depending on state and situation). Bankruptcy isn’t the “get out of debt free†card you’re making it out to be.
The hell it's not. I've been a trustee on several CH 11 creditor's committees (have you?). I've watched guys park their Mercedes in the parking lot at bankruptcy court to come and and claim they don't have any money. I'd say Donald Trump is living proof of it.
If being stripped of the ability to defend yourself makes you more
"safe" according to the government ... you might live in a country
founded by geniuses but run by idiots.
Not sure how a proposed limited ban on some classes of firearms (which most likely wont ever come into being, by the way) completely eviscerates your ability to defend yourself, you aren’t living in the same reality that I inhabit. The vast majority of weapons used in self defense situations have not been, nor will ever be in the foreseeable future, proposed for banning.
The only class of firearms that counts is the class that takes the ability of the citizenry to defend itself against a tryannical government? Again, why are we arguing the 2nd Amendment when it already exists?
Participating in a gun "buy back" because you believe that the
criminals have too many guns is like having yourself castrated because
you believe that the neighbors have too many kids.
Not much to say on this, as this is your personal opinion, and you are entitled to it (at least until they start working on entitlement reform), but participation in a gun buyback program is their choice, and you should give them the respect for making their own decisions if you ever expect people to respect yours in return.
Given all the attempts our legislatures and the current administration are proposing, I'd say my respect for my decision to keep and bear arms ISN'T being respected. True respect would be, if you don't want them for you, Don't buy or have them, but don't stick your nose into my right to....and they are using MY tax dollars (yes, I'm one of the minority that actually PAYS income taxes) to do it.
In the mean time, I too should return to our hypothetical work 
