Of course it's a lie

Did you expect anything else?

10 of the Most Shocking & Revealing Secrets from an Alleged Former TSA Agent: ‘It’s All for Show'

This whole thing is kabuki theater. It always has been. It's like most laws meant to protect you; such as gun laws. Up until the 1960's, you could buy a gun from the Sears catalog. You could walk into you local hardware store, see that rifle or shotgun and ask to buy it. The clerk would look at you sideways, determine for themselves you weren't a criminal, and then sell it to you. Fuck, you could buy a cannon through mail-order. But then we put in all these laws and surprisingly, crime didn't decrease. Wow... shocking.
Air travel? It used to be a thing of leisure. You'd actually get dressed up for it. Now, most people won't actually get dressed up to walk outside their homes and while I'm certainly as guilty of this as the next guy, but there comes a point when it's ridiculous, no?

I like hot women as much as the next guy, but wearing this in public? Everyone raises holy hell about how "Men see women as just sexual objects!!!" You wonder why? Don't misconstrue this as some excuse for vile animals to rape or molest women who dress like this, but have some level of decency, and respect for yourself, will ya?

And then there's the polar opposite of just being fucking lazy. "I'll just dress like a slob and wear PJ's today." Again, self respect is a marvelous thing. Try buying yourself some.


And yes, both pictures are of women. Get over it. I did a couple quick Bing searches and came up with these. Back to my point...

So as we started implementing all this security bullshit at the airport, that should have stopped hijackings and smuggling and all this stuff, to make us "safer". Oh wait... it didn't. Wow! I'm so shocked! As shocked as I was about the conclusions in "Super Size Me" that eating McDonalds 3 times a day, every day, isn't healthy. Why? Because the idea is flawed.
This is not to infer that some level of protection or screening shouldn't be done, but the motions are just that; no one truly gives a shit. Next time you go through the airport, look at the people you're forced to interact with. How much attention do they really give you? That is until you ruffle their feathers; I'll get to that one.
If you're not checking a bag, no one sees you at the front counter. Oh they see you, but that's it. And even checking a bag, they look at the boarding pass, your ID, maybe your face quickly, then "Be on with you."
Second line: You and the rest of the cattle line up to have your branding checked. Again, they'll look at your ID, wave a light over it to see the watermark, mark you boarding pass, then again, maybe they'll look at your face against the ID, but usually not. "Be gone, peon, I approve you."
To the thyroid killer. You pile your crap on the disgusting trays and into the x-ray and the person watching the screen... some look intently, but they're focusing on specific shapes and objects, not seeing the forest for the trees, if you will, and that's through.
Into the machine of long slow death, taking the "I surrender" pose, they barely look at you. Sure, they tell you to have everything out of your pockets, but they never check unless they see something obvious. Some drone in a remote room tells them you're okay and again, "Leave us, mere mortal, we are busy."
Gate agent: Most don't even look at you unless your pass is rejected by the barcode scanner. Some do and smile and such, but I'd say at least half could care less. "Just get on the plane, sloth, get away from me."
The only people who actually start to pay attention to you are the stewards/stewardess', mainly because they have no choice.


With this, does it really matter anyways? Hell no. If someone means to either transport drugs, harmful items, or hijack/blow up a plane, they're going to do it. Like gun laws, it does nothing but keep the honest people honest.
"So you're saying there should be nothing?!"
No, but let's be honest: Exclude x-rays for baggage and metal detectors - does any of the other shit make a damn bit of difference? They're run test after test and people with "bombs" and weapons still get through at about the same rate as before. Fuck, people get ON THE PLANE ITSELF with fake boarding passes.
Now, if the issues of security were relegated to the airport OR the airlines themselves, you'd have a much different approach. Why? Because while they're concerned with safety of ALL their passengers, they need to balance that with customer satisfaction. AND, they need to make sure their employees are happy with their jobs. So, well paid & trained screeners, security plans that have the safety and the satisfaction of the customers in mind, and... yeah, it still doesn't matter. If someone wants to blow up that plane, they're doing it. BUT, it makes the entire process a lot easier and screens out the jackholes who are just looking to cause problems, not serious in their approach. All this without grandma getting molested, without little kids getting groped, and maybe, just maybe, you can pass through an airport with some level of dignity.

I sue you, you sue me...

...We're litigious as can be
With my lawyer here
And a suit from me to you
Consider this
A big fuck you.

Part of the societal collapse that's occurring includes the fact that no one takes "Sorry" for an answer and everyone is out to screw everyone else. It's part of the ME culture that's solidifying. All actions revolve around The Self. If it doesn't benefit me, then fuck you all.
Now, even when we were a more honest, compassionate, and seemingly selfless people, everyone acts in their own interest. It's why we give to charity - we want to do something good for other people because it makes us feel better. That's not a bad thing. But it's gone from "making me feel good" to "how does it benefit me". It seems like semantics, but there's a definitive difference between those two.
And The System has perpetuated the ability for us to be suing the crap out of each other. While I like the fact that we're (well, we were) different than other countries, but we're the only country where whomever we sue has to pay court costs, even if they're right. Because of this, people can bring a suit against someone, usually a company, and that company now has to mobilize their legal team to defend themselves. Even if they were in the right, they still have to pay for the court costs. This is complete bullshit. If you're found liable, then fine, costs could and should be levied. But if you're found to be cleared, then the person bringing the suit should pay out the ass.
And before someone gets their panties in a twist: Yes, large corporations have stockpiles of cash where they could, in essence, drag a court case out for months, if not years. But that becomes the responsibility of the court to see that this is happening and put a stop to it. Our system of laws shouldn't be allowed to benefit any one person or entity. That is where all entities should be equal. And I'm sure that's why the "winner still pays up the fuckhole" rule was in place; to prevent someone from dragging out a lawsuit because they have the money to.

Government tends to be the single point of failure in how people interact with people, with businesses, businesses with other businesses and so on. Once a law is put in place, like the ADA, it opens up individuals and businesses for lawsuits because they didn't comply with the rules laid out. There's fucktards across the country who see it as their sole mission in life to harass and extort (make no mistake about it, that's what it is) businesses who sinks are 36 inches off the ground, not 36.252897495727 inches. They file a suit, then tell the business owner, who is usually a small business, that if they pay this person $10,000 and fix the problem, they'll drop the suit, which if it went through the whole court process, could cost the owner thousands more in fees and fines. What the fuck?!?!

And on TV every night, you see dozens of adds for sheisters who will take a drug company to court if you took some drug and it fucked you up. Guess what, kids? Pharmaceuticals mess with your body. They screw with the chemical make up of your biology in order to produce a different outcome than what you're seeing right now. No two people have the same chemical make up so a drug that makes me feel great could cause your penis to fall of. Which sucks even more if you didn't have one before, the drug causes you to grow one, and then it falls off. If you don't understand that this is how drugs work, then you're a fucking 'tard.
So, because we're a society of moochers and want what other people have (I.E., we're greedy motherfuckers), if that new skin cream gives me a rash, LAWSUITLAWSUITLAWSUIT!!!!!
The liability insurance these drug makers have to carry is enormous. This is why it takes forever for a new drug to come to market and why they charge so much for it. The R&D alone, to protect themselves from every possible douchenozzle who could sue them, takes up millions. Then the FDA testing. Then the money to cover the insurance. Fuck...
AND, here's one for you. There is a decreasing supply of prescription painkillers. This isn't only attributed to the DEA arresting any doctor who gives you 2 pills too many. This is because it's no longer profitable for the pharma to make that drug. The liability they have to hold on that drug line is too great. So they stop making them. Think this will get any better?

And the fucking disclaimers and warnings. Oh my holy fuck this is out of control.  EVERY T.V. ad has a disclaimer. I stop the DVR and read each of these because they've become so annoyingly stupid. The "Professional driver. Closed course." ones on car ads are the worst. They ACTUALLY had one on that car ad where it showed astronauts driving some car on the moon. Along with "Do not try this". What?!?!
Warning labels and instructions on things like boxes of toothpicks are absurd. A warning label on a hammer. A fucking hammer!?!?! FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And this is ALL because someone sued. It has nothing to do with being safe, it has to do with covering your ass.

Hospitals... oh dear. We are losing obstetricians annually because new doctors refuse to go into the specialty. and existing ones are quitting the field. Why? The liability and malpractice insurance they have to carry is too oppressive. The risks involved in child birth are real. Babies die regularly. It's sad, it's tragic, but 99 times out of 100, it's no ones fault. But people feel slighted, so they have to sue. This obviously isn't restricted to OB's, as all nurses and doctors need to carry this or they could lose their homes and more, but for OB's, it's become too much to deal with and they're saying "Fuck it, I'm done." Think this won't hurt in the future? Think it's not hurting now?

All this came to mind in hearing that Colorado has a bill in their legislature that could hold gun dealers and manufacturers liable in the event the gun is used to harm someone (which is what they're supposed to do, but you get the point). Now, let me say that for a dealer, if they sell a gun to a known criminal (it's important to say that) then they should be able to be held criminally liable. Criminally, not civilly. But these laws are to allow families to sue in case some asshole shoots someone. FUCK YOU!!! This is why the civilian air industry is decimated. There used to be plenty of producers of civilian aircraft like Cessna and Piper. But too many accidents happened because the pilots were fucking assholes, families sued, and viola, the manufacturer goes out of business. I read of an incident where a guy crashed the plane, killing himself. When they found the plane, there were booze in the plane. They tested his blood and he was so fucking drunk it was surprising how he got the plane off the ground. His family sued the manufacturer and they fucking won!!!! If this goes through across the country, expect lawsuits to be filed against companies with big time cash reserves like Sterm Ruger or Smith & Wesson and that will be the beginning of the end of the civilian firearms market because THAT will crush the industry.

In "The Running Man", a lawyer is basically reading a contract to a condemned man, whose execution is going to be televised. Let's get to the meat of that, shall we? This is what we have right now! We're making disclaimers for cars, drinks, food, cell phones, toys, BAGS OF FUCKING NUTS!!! I shit you not! Next time you're on a plane, if they by chance have peanuts, read the bag. It will say "This product contains nuts"
DO NOT MISUNDERSTAND ME. There are plenty of times where companies or people are wantonly negligent and don't give a shit, resulting in someone getting injured or killed because they just didn't give a shit. Fuck them. Fuck them in the ass with a big rubber dick. BUT... I would fathom a guess that this is only the case about 10% of the time.

When America finally collapses, which it will soon enough, this will all turn real fuckin' ugly. I'll let your imagination run with that.

If your politicians suck, look in the mirror

Carlin had moments when he was just a miserable prick, but a fair amount of the time, he was right on. For the first half of this rant, he was. I'll address the second half in my second half.

I am amazed more and more about the idiocy of those in political office. With every story I read, I'm facepalming so much there's an indent on my forehead and where my fingers fall on the sides. What fascinates me is that this person was elected to office by people who liked them. Well... maybe not necessarily liked, but "Anybody but a Democrat/Republican/Old White Guy/Black Guy/Woman/Mexican/Asian/That Guy". Those people make me giggle like a school girl. And if you've never seen a fat guy with a beard giggle like a school girl, good for you.
You are presented with two bowls of shit to eat. One is liquid, one is solid. The "Anybody but..." Syndrome says "I have to chose between these two, I'll chose this one". So you don't want the liquid shit, you'll take the solid one. A removed observer would say "Are you fucking high?" because the right answer to the dilemma is neither.
Andrew Wilkow, on his radio show, has addressed this in regards to dealing with Progressives. In short, their answer to you when you say you're for smaller government or you want to cut spending or whatever is "So you want people to die/be stupid/go hungry/etc..."; their choices being Statism or Nihilism. If you can think logically, as in the two bowls of shit scenario I laid out for you, you'll know that the true answer is found elsewhere. To me, this was what the 2012 Presidential Election was all about.
My preferences from the start were Cain, Johnson, Paul, Bachmann. I wasn't going to vote for anyone else. And Bachmann was going to be a stretch vote for me, as she's a little not right in the head, but she's at least not full retard like the rest of the pack was. But with those candidates, I at least felt some level of trust and could agree with most of what they stood for. So on the final ticket, it was King Barry I (I'd rather live through a century of Wile E. Coyote prat falls than vote for him), Mittens (same scenario, but as Daffy Duck) or Gary Johnson. I voted for Johnson. Now, the rank and file were quick to scream "A vote for Johnson was a vote for Obama!". No, a vote for Johnson was a vote for Johnson. If Willard wanted my vote, he needed to earn it. Just by being "The Other Guy" doesn't earn my vote. And this is the problem with politicians now.
The overwhelming majority of these fucktards are, as Carlin said, a representation of the general public. I don't care what party they're affiliated with, stop and look at those who are most in the spotlight and you'll see the average schmoe in all of them. They live their lives on the backs of others; getting away with doing the least amount of work possible, while still holding up the facade that they're doing something. They pay lip service to helping others, but if it doesn't benefit them in the short AND long run, they won't touch it. They are quick to tell others how to live their lives...

Don't do drugs

Guns are bad

Marriage is sacred

Save the environment

Money is evil

Help small businesses

...but if it affects them, fuck you, they'll do what they like because they're "smarter than other people". They will rack up debt on top of debt on top of debt, but when the bill comes do, they're suddenly surprised and demand help paying it. Please, tell me this isn't a cross-section of the average person in this country.

THIS IS OUR PROBLEM!

The people voting for the politicians are what needs to change and this should scare the ever loving shit out of you. Why? There's over 500 politicians in Washington. A pittance in comparison to the population of the US. You can change the ideas of these people or just get them out of the way. That's simple. Over 220 million people CAN vote in the US. Now obviously, the variety of their political and social views mean there's no single consensus of ideas, but that's where it starts to get real fucking frightening.
130 million people voted in the Presidential election in 2012. 10 million less than in 2008. So roughly half of the population didn't vote in that election. In the "off years" (every other year - elections are held annually, if not more often), it's usually pathetically less.
Statistically speaking and it's important to say it that way because we are dealing with real numbers, but if you were talking statistics, the election was a 50/50 split. Reagan had a mandate. Obama - barely won. So 1/4 of the eligible voting public voted for Obama, 1/4 voted for Romney. So if 3/5 of the people WHO didn't vote last year actually made a choice for someone else, we'd have someone else as president. This is why the line "A third party can't win" is complete horseshit. They could win, but only if people got off their fucking asses.
That's what's scary about it all - The majority of people in this country don't care. They tend to call themselves "moderates" and when someone is either too left or too right for them, they cry "Why doesn't anybody compromise?!?!" and they don't find another candidate to vote for, they just don't vote. A moderate is someone who doesn't want to live with the consequences of making a decision by themselves. This is why they're "middle of the road".

Pot's okay, but all other drugs should be illegal

No one says you need to drive a Yugo, but let's be reasonable

The government shouldn't tell people what to eat, but some people are just too fat and we need to help them

I'm all for free speech, but hate speech shouldn't be allowed

Now, I'm sure some bright soul is saying "Wait a minute. A lot of those people who didn't vote for Mittens of King Barry I believe in freedom and liberty! They just didn't like the choices and didn't vote." You had a third choice on the national ballot: Gary Johnson. And let me be clear here, this isn't a plug for Gary Johnson. He had his flaws, but his entire platform was the free people ought to be allowed to make their own choices, as long as those choices didn't directly take away the rights of others. What's not to like about that? 

And there's another voice out there falling back to the "Anybody but that guy" argument: "King Barry I was so bad that we had to get him out of there and that meant I had to vote for Mittens!" So you were willing to trade one statist for another? Make no mistake, Romney was a statist. He just wanted to "manage" it better. Was he as bad Gingrich? No, but that's like saying "Was Mussolini as bad as Hitler?" Again, back to my two bowls of shit analogy.

Reps who call themselves bi-partisan. Calls for compromise. People who say "everyone can give a little in this debate, right?". All of these people are fuckers. Now some would say I'm giving the same "It's either A or B" options. And at some level, you're right. But my choices are freedom, with all the pleasure and pain that comes with it, or some level of government control, with it's sliding scale from creepy intrusion to tyranny and despotism. You can have a free society with government; we did for a long time in this country. But that means not putting up with the 500 elitists in D.C. who believe they know better than you. It means having the balls to vote OUT someone who's acting like a nanny, even when they're in "your party", and voting IN someone who is willing to fight for your right to be left alone.

If you continue to vote for "the lesser of two evils" you're still voting for evil and when government continues to stay shitty, pick up your chosen bowl, grab your spoon, and start investing in Callard & Bowser-Suchard, the company who makes Altoids (owned by Wrigley), because your breath is going to stink.

Progressives: Your safety is their... fifth concern

During my morning browsing of news and information sites, I came across this article on The Blaze:
This Colorado Democrat Thinks Women Shouldn’t Have Guns on College Campuses — The Reason Why Is Causing a Stir
The list I refer to is further down the page where the University of Colorado - Colorado Springs put forth a list on what to do if you're attacked. Oh it's rich...

1.    Be realistic about your ability to protect yourself.
2.    Your instinct may be to scream, go ahead!  It may startle your attacker and give you an opportunity to run away.
3.    Kick off your shoes if you have time and can’t run in them.
4.    Don’t take time to look back; just get away.
5.    If your life is in danger, passive resistance may be your best defense.
6.    Tell your attacker that you have a disease or are menstruating.
7.    Vomiting or urinating may also convince the attacker to leave you alone.
8.    Yelling, hitting or biting may give you a chance to escape, do it!
9.    Understand that some actions on your part might lead to more harm.
10.    Remember, every emergency situation is different.  Only you can decide which action is most appropriate.

 I think 1 and 10 are pretty good. Everything else is laughable, if it weren't that these people are weapons grade stupid.  Obviously, these are directed at women on a college campus and being that colleges demand that you be a defenseless sheep, these are painfully the only things you can do. If someone means to do you harm, they're going to do it unless you can physically stop them; either through action or intimidation.
What I found funny was watching a video on YouTube pro concealed carry, someone commented that "I'm 6 foot 2, 250 pounds. A loud yell and a menacing look is all I need." By which the 5 foot, 120 pound 14 year old gang banger with an illegal 1911 pops him in the head and steals his wallet. Or the 6 foot 3 inch, 300 pound thief hits him in the head with a brick, steals his wallet, watch, and rings, and shoves a pipe up his ass just for the fun of it. OR... what about does the 5 foot 10, 170 pound 70 year old do when they're being harassed, threatened, or intimidated? "I'm gonna call the cops on you!" he/she shouts before they're assaulted by the thugs. Or what does my 5 foot 9, 140 pound daughter (she's older) do? Some people are as dumb as a bowl of wet mice.
"I'm a man! I don't need a gun!" You're an asshole and a 9 year old with a .22 will make you cry like a baby with diaper rash. Or the 'wimp' you step up to with your "menacing" look may be carrying a knife or pepperspray and when you yell at him, he's gonna fuck you up.

Obviously, people deserve to walk the streets without being harassed or harmed. But we live in a violent world. The human animal is a pretty shitty creature when left without a conscience or care about anyone but Itself. We (the greater) need to accept that fact that some people are scum and we need to protect ourselves from them. The young girl  who follows all the steps laid out above could still find herself raped, beaten, and possibly even dead, because she believed in The System and the defensive powers of The State. And the young girl who brings a firearm into the situation, with the training behind it? She too could still wind up raped, beaten, or dead, but she at least leveled the odds and said, "I will not comply."

It's not the video, it's the lyrics

A song from my youth.
A band from New York called S.F.A. They were part of the hardcore punk movement called "hatecore". This wasn't some white power thing at the start; it was in response to the unity movement that had been underway in the hardcore scene. Bands like S.F.A and Sheer Terror were basically just pissed off regular guys who wanted to sing about the shitty side of life, voice their opinions about societal and political bullshit without being "We should come together and love one another and sing and dance and..." They were saying "This shit is fucked up! You all suck! Eat a dick!" As a lyric from Sheer Terror's song "Just Can't Hate Enough" says:

I'm just a workin' class slob who's tired

Of getting the short end of the stick

It ain't my problem if I'm not like you

And I'm not suckin' Uncle Sam's dick

You call that negative

You think I'm out of touch

I can't stand living

I can't stand you

And I just can't hate enough.

Now like many popular movements, someone comes along and distorts the original message and the white power movement took over the term "hatecore". Typical of the seek-help crowd.

Anyways...

This song came up in a random music shuffle recently and I thought it's a powerful one. Won't say I condone it, but I understand. :-)

Lyrics below, as they can be a little tough to make out for some folks.

You don't have to look far to see filth and grime
Our daily lives are filled with perversion and crime
A dealer on the corner, some whores down the block
It's an everyday sight, it comes as no shock
No arrests are made, the politicians are corrupted
This is the world they made, it's time we disrupt it
Justice can't be brought through legal demands
The only way to do it is with the law in our hands
Purge! Bring down the state
You rally and protest, your voices go unheard
You've got to change tactics
Actions speak louder than words
Democracy is a sham, it's all been prearranged
Bombs, not ballots, is the only way to bring a change
World history is approaching it's darkest hour
We can turn back the clock, we've got the power
We are the new morality, the power is in our hands
We can sweep across the nation and purge the land
Politicians and evangelists all spread the lie
For their injustice to humanity, they'll have to die
Today's robber barons must be assassinated
Drug dens and porno houses must be incinerated
We're the new morality, our numbers are vast
We can build a new future as we burn down the past
We'll show no mercy, no hesitation
Might makes right, we're gonna purge the nation
Purge! Bring down the state

More basics of economics - The Minimum Wage

I didn't watch the State Of The Union. Every time I see or hear King Barry I, I get an animalistic urge to throw poo at the electronic device spewing his voice. That aside, I heard clips and the one that made me yell "FUCK YOU!!!" to the screen was the typical Progressive line that people can't live off the minimum wage and we can't have that so we need to raise he minimum wage.

My pretty much exact phrase that night was "Fuck you, you fucking dumbass retard! You have NO CLUE how business works!"

Why does the minimum wage suck and why it does nothing positive for "the poor" and only hurts?

Pretty much all companies have jobs that need to be done that are menial, ultra-low skilled, and 'entry-level'. As a business is small, these jobs are done by the owner (as they're the only employee at the start), but then it can become a team effort: Everyone refills the coffee pot. While she's handling all the accounting tasks, Pam also orders the office supplies. Karen, who's the senior sales person (because she's the only one), sweeps the floors before heading home. Dave, who's the software programer, buys and restocks the coffee supplies weekly. You get the idea. Now, as the business expands and these people work more and more, these jobs STILL need to be done. You, as the owner, decide that you need to hire someone. So, you need someone to sweep floors, clean the toilet, order supplies, restock the coffee, and maybe even answer phones.
Question: How many people walking the Earth can do that job? Excluding young children, language barred, the retarded, infirmed, and those just physically incapable of doing it, about 95% of the people out there can do this job. Efficiencies aside, I could hire a teenage kid, still in high school to do this job.
Second question: How valuable is that work when I can hire just about anyone to do it? Shoe-level low. So why should I pay any one with ZERO experience, ZERO work history, and ZERO background on how well they work, anything more than a couple dollars an hour?
"You can't live off that!" Cries the Progressive.
You're not supposed to! These jobs that are as simple as shitting are of such low value is that I probably could hire a retard and they'd perform most of the tasks just fine.
"So why should these people take these jobs?"
To get work history. To be able to show another employer, for a higher skilled job, that you're dependable, that you've worked 40 hour weeks, showed up on time, made your employer happy, etc... The $5.00/hour  ain't pretty, but it's something. It's $200 a week you didn't have before. Want more, learn a skill and find a better job.

Now, let's add in "The Minimum Wage". Right now, it's about $7.25. I have two people coming at me for this shit job. If I have to pay them $7.25 an hour, who will I hire - Joe, who's 15, never had a job in his life beyond mowing lawns, he's still in school, he's an average student. Or Jane, who's 32 with a child at home, who worked 3 jobs successfully, growing into new positions, and only left the job market because she had a baby, and she's a college graduate. Ding, ding, ding, Jane, you have a job. Why? Even without asking anything, if Jane says she's a mom, I can generally assume she's responsible (I know, that's definitely not a guarantee, but...) because she has to care for a child. I can make an assumption that she is looking for extra money for something; why come back to work if she didn't have to? She has a history of work, so I could ask for a reference and would maybe find she's been reliable. Joe has no benefits to me, Joe gets no job. BUT... what if Joe was willing to take $6.00 an hour and Jane wasn't? Now Joe is a benefit to me. I can get the same work done for less money. I give Joe a chance. Maybe Joe thanks me by staying loyal to me and as his skill increase, maybe Joe stays with my company and grows into new jobs for me.
How many kids are working at jobs that were open to teenagers before. My first jobs were shoveling ice cream, then stocking shelves, stocking produce, cleaning a charter boat. These jobs suck. But I earned money, I got work experience, I showed my value. Look around now and who's doing these jobs? Adults!
"They deserve a fair wage!" Cries the Progressive.
That is fair. Why? Because if I can't pay the wages these people want, I just don't hire them. I still have the rest of my staff performing the jobs because they still need to be done!
"You're a greedy business owner who is keeping all the profit!"
To be considered a successful business, you have to be maintaining an 8% net profit margin. This allows you to grow in the following year(s), re-invest in the company, maybe buy a new company etc...  About 4% is considered being stagnant. Anything less, but over 0, is struggling to survive. So if I take anything out of those profits to increase the pay of my employees and don't receive any additional benefit from it or increase my revenue, I'm losing money. The business will collapse. Or...
To increase the money I'm paying my employees, I increase my prices. If I'm one business doing this, not a big deal, people can chose to do business with me or not. Maybe my products are worth the additional prices I'm charging. Maybe not. If I don't get the increased revenue, I can't afford to pay my people, people get pay cuts, get laid off, etc... Now, what if ALL businesses do this? The prices for EVERYTHING go up. The additional money that person making minimum wage got by the government mandated increase, now becomes absolutely worthless because the price of everything increased by the same percentage their wage increased. If you don't think this is happening, you've got shit between your ears because it DOES happen. Every single time the minimum wage is increased, the prices increase.

The only way a person making a shit wage can increase their pay is to increase their skills, increase their worth to the person/people who have or are willing to hire them . If you're making $8.00/hr at Walmart, then A) Find a better job than stocking shelves at Walmart or B) Show you're more valuable to Walmart so they can put you into a job that is commiserate with your work.

I support the Second Amendment, but...

How many times have you heard that one? Especially as of late. Or "I'm all for freedom of speech, but..." That one's surprisingly popular as well.
If you say you're for freedom and then add "...but,..." then you're not. In truth, when you make a statement and through in a "But" in the middle, whatever you said before the 'but' is bullshit.
"I think you're a great guy, Tom, but I've heard you can be a cunt sometimes." = "Tom, you're a cunt."
"I don't have a problem with black people, but they do cause the majority of crimes." = "Black people cause the majority of crimes and I don't like them."
"I believe in the Second Amendment, but we should ban assault rifles." = "I believe we should ban guns."
"I'm all for freedom of speech, but we shouldn't allow hate speech." = "I want to restrict speech."

Freedom is painful. The movie is mainly filled with Progressive tripe, but Michael Douglas' soliloquy at the end of "American President" has some truth to it.
"America isn't easy. America is advanced citizenship. You gotta want it bad, 'cause it's gonna put up a fight. It's gonna say "You want free speech? Let's see you acknowledge a man whose words make your blood boil, who's standing center stage and advocating at the top of his lungs that which you would spend a lifetime opposing at the top of yours. You want to claim this land as the land of the free? Then the symbol of your country can't just be a flag; the symbol also has to be one of its citizens exercising his right to burn that flag in protest. Show me that, defend that, celebrate that in your classrooms. Then, you can stand up and sing about the "land of the free"."
What freedom means is suffering the consequences of your failures. If you want to be free to ride your motorcycle without a helmet, then when you wreck and crack your skull, the bills are on you. Your family can't sue the motorcycle company or the city or the state. You're the one responsible for it.
The same for businesses. Right now, we're living through the results of "shared liability, private profits." GM, Citibank, Bank Of America, Solyndra, and probably thousands of others who, thanks to politicians, hoist their failures upon the American taxpayer, but when they make a profit, that's all for them, their unions, etc... FUCK YOU!!! If you want to be free from government regulations (Trust me, these large government connected companies LOVE regulations. They help write them to keep away the competition) then you are solely responsible for the actions of your business.
As a gun owner, you are responsible for the control of that weapon. If someone gets killed because of a 'misfire', "I thought it was unloaded", "It was an accident", it gets stolen, then it's on you. Yes, you can do your best to secure it and these things can happen, but YOU are responsible for it. If it's stolen, then report it as such. Welcome to reality.
But the same goes for the people around us.
If you've agreed to the terms of a drivers license, then you've agreed to be responsible for the rolling mass of death thundering down the road, with you behind the wheel. If you crash into a motorcyclist while texting, you're the asshole and no amount of helmet laws will have cured your stupidity.
If you're continuing to buy the products produced by a company who you feel has shitty business practices (Apple, Bank Of America, Levi Strauss, etc...) then guess who's responsible for that company staying in business? Yup, you guessed it, you're the cocksucker. How's it taste?
I could go on, but hopefully, you get the point.

We (The Collective) have all but agreed that We can't deal with freedom. Sure, there's some of us who understand that our actions have reprecussions and we're ready to deal with that, but the greater populace of the US has determined that it just can't handle their own lives and has turned to The State for care and feeding. It shouldn't come as a surprise as this is the way most of the world has gone and, being an open immigration country (unlike the rest of the world), we get these ideas imported and they begin to fester. It's like my current state, North Carolina. Entry way to The South. However, there's been such an influx of "Northerners" here, fleeing their high-tax, high-regulation states, that the politics are beginning o reflect that. Hell, there's a town down here called "Cary", which the locals refer to as Containment Area for Relocated Yankees. It has higher property taxes than the surrounding communities. There's tons of ordinances restricting business facades, what signs you can have in your yards, etc... Progressives are like cancer, aren't they? They pick a place, attack it, ruin it, move on, do it all over again.

There is a sliver of hope that people are beginning to realize that the chains of The State are heavy and are trying to shrug them off. But if the "Freedom Movement" has any chance of growing, people need to be ready to accept some pain; mainly mental, but there could be some physical hardship. But it's the only way it can happen. If We keep trying to deaden the pain, we'll continue to be asleep and be subservient to The State.