Annoyed

It annoys me to find myself agreeing with almost everything a person says. But yet again, CrimLaw makes very valuable points.

I have said for years that if the Democrats ruled the world, we would all be assigned a psychologist. After all, anyone who disagrees with their social platform must be mentally ill. If Republicans ruled the world, we would all be assigned a probation officer. Everything to them is a crime. We would all be convicted felons. Unless, of course, we were William Bennett.

As a fiscal conversative, the Republicans love for criminalizing conduct enrages me. I can cite to dozens of examples where a taxpayer is arrested at work (and thereafter fired) for some bs offense that ends up getting dismissed. Often, these are petty drug crimes. So what have we wrought?

We have taken a taxpayer from accounts receivable because he was arrested at work, fired, and therefore no longer paying taxes. We have placed him (and his wife and children) into accounts payable because now that their dad is out of work, the family must apply for welfare. Worse, we often send people to jail for petty drug offenses or other bs crimes. Thus, we must pay for the person to sit in jail or prison. We must feed him, clothe him, and provide him shelter. And of course, we have to pay for the prisons to be constructed, etc. Plus, once dad is in prison, the children begin getting into more and more trouble, until we are paying for them to sit in jail, too.

Tell me again why we accuse the Democrats as being in favor of the welfare state? When will the fiscal conservatives of the world unite?