Re: OT - What do you think of Senator McCain's latest tactic?

I am currently reading "Wild Swans". It is the story of 3 generations of
Chinese women (true story), and the woman writing it is about my age. She
was born and raised in China during the Cultural Revolution of Mao, and her
mother and father were both communists and high up in the party. What Mao
did to that country was amazing, (the regime before him was bad, and the
people saw the communists as saviors, but they didn't know how bad it could
get) and I see the U.S. slipping and sliding toward "The Government" taking
care of us, just as was Mao's dream. I never knew the extent of it, and this
was going on when I was a young girl. The Chinese were not allowed to even
have their own food to cook! It was against the law! They all had to eat in
the "canteen" and thousands upon thousands of people starved to death. The
funny part is that this lady says that if she didn't like something and
didn't want to eat it the adults told her, "think of all the poor capitalist
children in American who don't have enough food to eat!" HA! A trick used by
parents worldwide, I guess!

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Kathy
www.ambergriscaye.com/villadelsol
"Anne V." <ahvasquez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I think the trans fats thing is ridiculous, too. Not as serious as
freedoms infringed upon by the Patriot Act, maybe, but all the same, I
detest being looked upon as not being competent to make my own judgments
about what I will or won't eat.

Incidentally, I've never been investigated by the government, but I still
see the Patriot Act as freedom infringement. Call me paranoid, but I have
no faith in the government to use the Patriot Act only as a means of
hunting down terrorists.

Anne

"Phyllis Nilsson" <phyllisnilsson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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California has just taken away another freedom from those eating in their
state. They are outlawing transfats. Not suggesting you shouldn't eat
them, not warning of their dangers, not giving you the choice of eating
them or something else, but actually outlawing a food product, removing
your freedom of choice.

Those who agree transfats are bad for us might not see the loss of
freedom, as those who have never been investigated by the government
don't see the Patriot Act as the loss of freedom. I don't think
transfats rise the level of terrorism though.

"Anne V." <ahvasquez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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When I mention damaging the Constitution and Bill of Rights, what's in
my head is the Patriot Act. I can't believe that we just willingly
handed our rights over to the government. The founding fathers of this
country must be spinning in their graves.

Anne






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