Forming my own government

fastpat · 10-09-2006, 09:20 AM

This has been posted in several threads, and though it's a pretty silly "rhetorical" question, I'm going to treat it as much more adult than it really is.

First, let me tell everyone that I've already formed my own government, and did so years ago.

For many of you, that must mean that I've government offices, employees, taxes, and an army at my disposal; but the plain fact is that I have no need for any of those things, and never will.

Where I live, we just about govern ourselves; truly the only time we see a government employee is when the USG delivers the mail (and if the USG hadn't gone to court and forced its' own monopoly, we'd not see them at all), and the occaisional sheriff's deputy cruising by every few months or so. Oh, yes, the county's forced monopoly on the road counts, I suppose, when it decides to repave every "X" many years. When an ice storm closed our road with fallen trees, we opened them up again ourselves, the county cleared up what debris was left about three months later, when they "got around to it".

My government is already formed, and in full progress, or should I say, full process? Runs really smooth, too.

Rodeo · 10-09-2006, 09:28 AM

Do you send yourself pension checks every month?

dd74 · 10-09-2006, 09:31 AM

When you say "I formed my own government," who is the "we" in statements such as "When an ice storm closed our road with fallen trees, we opened them up again ourselves."

Does that mean "we" as in you and your family, or others, such as neighbors? If it is others, does that mean others have their own government as well? And if so, what are the relations between your government and others? Good? Bad? So-so?

widebody911 · widebody911's Garage

Reminds me of the Family Guy "Petoria" episode...

fastpat · 10-09-2006, 09:34 AM

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Originally posted by Rodeo
Do you send yourself pension checks every month?

Nope. Not required. The company I worked for does that.

fastpat · 10-09-2006, 09:37 AM

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Originally posted by dd74
When you say "I formed my own government," who is the "we" in statements such as "When an ice storm closed our road with fallen trees, we opened them up again ourselves."

Does that mean "we" as in you and your family, or others, such as neighbors? If it is others, does that mean others have their own government as well? And if so, what are the relations between your government and others? Good? Bad? So-so?

The "we" is those that live in my neighborhood. Is it so curious that we could do what we did, without negotiations or a government (tax paid) arbiter?

Are you really that deeply entranced with and by an entity that uses force upon you?

Rodeo · 10-09-2006, 09:38 AM

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Originally posted by fastpat
Nope. Not required. The company I worked for does that.

If you haver declined to take your U.S. government pension, I would applaud that decision. Did you?

fastpat · 10-09-2006, 09:40 AM

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Originally posted by CS119laCoS
You mean "Patoria?"

They only got one letter wrong on this first draft of the flag.

I'm sure someone here can fix that.

As I stated, I have no need for any of that regalia.

The government that you apparently love, needs them so desparately that it's considering making "flag burning" unlawful by Constitutional amendment.

That's the problem, writ large, with government today. It's convinced many of you that you need it, everyday, and every hour. When the truth is, you don't need it at all.

lendaddy · 10-09-2006, 09:41 AM

Then why do you keep cashing checks from our Government?

Rodeo · 10-09-2006, 09:43 AM

I wouldn't say that I "love" the government ... I think it is a necessary evil.

To protect me and my family from people like you

Eric 951 · 10-09-2006, 09:43 AM

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Originally posted by fastpat

That's the problem, writ large, with government today. It's convinced many of you that you need it, everyday, and every hour. When the truth is, you don't need it at all.

So, you aren't cashing any of those checks then?

so brave.

fastpat · 10-09-2006, 09:45 AM

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Originally posted by Rodeo
If you haver declined to take your U.S. government pension, I would applaud that decision. Did you?

If something is owed to me, I will collect it, pretty simple. Are you in the habit of not doing that?

I won't be answering any private financial questions, nor asking any, so don't bother. In the long and short of it, that's none of your or anyone else's business.

I'm not surprised at the question, however, that's at least part of the reason so many like a state and/or federal income tax. So individuals have to tell everyone else what they money they make. That's why it's so hard to do away with, jealousy reigns in some area's of the country.

fastpat · 10-09-2006, 09:49 AM

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Originally posted by CS119laCoS
Even when you know that money you are collecting was stolen from good folks "at gunpoint?"

Especially if I know that.

Eric 951 · 10-09-2006, 09:53 AM

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Originally posted by fastpat
That's why it's so hard to do away with, jealousy reigns in some area's of the country.

mainly south of the mason-dixie line.

lendaddy · 10-09-2006, 09:53 AM

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Originally posted by fastpat
Especially if I know that.

So you enslave us with your thievery and justify it via an agreement you made with other theives?

Burnin' oil · 10-09-2006, 09:55 AM

I, too, am my own government. Lucky for you you're 3,000 miles away and don't have anything I want 'cause otherwise I'd declare war on your ass and take what I wanted

fastpat · 10-09-2006, 09:57 AM

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Originally posted by Burnin' oil
I, too, am my own government. Lucky for you you're 3,000 miles away and don't have anything I want 'cause otherwise I'd declare war on your ass and take what I wanted

That would be unsound. Much easier for you to earn what you want (even if you lived next door), as it is for me to do so. Then we trade with each other for goods the other has, and we want.

Neat.

widebody911 · widebody911's Garage

Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

fastpat · 10-09-2006, 09:59 AM

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Originally posted by lendaddy
So you enslave us with your thievery and justify it via an agreement you made with other theives?

Not at all, you voluntarily give it. Didn't you know that? It says so right on your tax booklet every year.

"World's largest voluntary tax system".

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Originally posted by Burnin' oil
I'd declare war on your ass

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