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Originally Posted by PBzeer
I don't recall anyone saying the law was fair, or even just, but to use your analogy, shouldn't it be Congress (the drug dealers) we go after instead of the private sector (the drug users)? During his days as a drug user, surely Obama gained some insight into how that works.
The point is though, whether fair or not, laws are laws. They are either upheld, or they are meaningless.
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You can remove your Congress person every two years. That is the law. Yes, you should go after them if you don't like them. That happens to be a pretty good and fair law.
As too all laws being OK and black and white, no....not true IMHO. Most people AND politicians practice selective lawfulness. Part of being "free" is making those decisions as to which need "broken". This can mean you don't buckle your seat belt until you get to the end of the street (illegal, against the law), etc.
Laws are somewhat like locks. Some of them keep honest people honest. Then again, there are MANY laws that are just plain wrong and overbearing. There were in recent history laws against interracial marriage. I would not say they needed to be upheld "or else" the person was wrong. Same with hundreds of other laws.
Personally, I do nothing to intentionally break the law....but at the same time, I don't consult the statute books before I do anything.
I'm certain that Bush, Obama and all those guys learned a lot from coke, pot and drinking, but at the same time don't recall any of them (other than reportedly GW who was gotten off by his dad) getting caught like Rush.
Back to the thread topic - are we there yet? No one knows, that is for certain. At the same time, there is no doubt (ALL polls) that vastly more people are seeing a light at the end of the (still very long) tunnel. I am an eternal optimist, but at the same time I can count. With 50 trillion dollars worth of potential toxic assets still unreported (as to their real value), we still have no idea how much of our common wealth will need to be sucked away to fix the mistakes of a couple thousand Wall Streeters and Bankers. So far it is about 6-8 trillion in real estate value and another 10-20 trillion in stock market wealth. That ain't peanuts, fer sure.