IT IS CRIMINAL

Suppose the City Council of Richmond, Virginia drafted a 1900 page bill on Wednesday and on Saturday voted to take over all the construction businesses in the greater Richmond area AND in addition voided all the contractual relationships of every citizen who had any kind of relationship with these businesses AND dictacted to all these citizens the terms of which their new relationships with these businesses were to be? If you are a plumber and own your own business, now the government tells you how much to charge and what services you must provide to Mrs. Jones, the lady with a clogged sink. It competes against you using taxpayer money. If you are Mrs. Jones, now the government tells you what plumber you must use and even though all you need is for your sink to be unclogged, you must pay for new faucets and drainlines. If Mrs. Jones doesn't abide by the new terms the government sets, she will go to jail and pay a $250,000 fine.

You can bet, the good people of Richmond would tell the city government to go to hell and there would be malfeasance and corruption charges brought against these politicians in about 30 seconds.

We live in Orwellian times. Right now as you are playing golf or watching college football on this Saturday afternoon, the U.S. Congress, an absolutely corrupt and morally bankrupt institution, is voting to take over 16.67% of the U.S economy, seizing property from its owners at the point of a bayonet.

Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Patrick Henry

Rob Is Right.