In 2009 Can We Have Some Common Sense?

A new year, a new start. Let's start with something called common sense. Try to apply it to what is happening around you, and spread it around. Some examples of the lack of common sense and the intrusion into our personal space:

1. The 30 second idling rule.
2. Banning guns.
3. Smoking laws.
4. Taxpayer paid abortions.
5. Free needles and drugs.
6. Bailouts.
7. HRC's
8. Lack of property rights.
9. Coalitions.
10. Unions.
11. Global warming.
12. House arrest for murder.

Those are just a few examples of how special interest groups and socialists are taking away our individual rights for the "good" of society. Feel free to add your pet peeves.

Free society? How free are we anymore? You can't open a bar that allows smoking because it will take away business from other bars. If we actually had property rights, they could not dictate to us like this is Russia. This is supposedly for the good of society because smoking, though legal is socially undesirable, but at the same time we are told that marijuana should be legalized and special smoking rooms should be allowed for those who want to toke up.

We are told that we should herd our children into daycares, for their own good, that having a child actually raised by one of their parents is undesirable for society. The family has become a threat to socialists because it forms the basis of a secure and stable society.

Common sense has disappeared to be replaced by political correctness and multiculturalism. Special interest groups abound, mostly funded by governments, the majority of them are only interested in restricting our freedoms, or intruding into our lives with stupid laws. A 30 second idling rule in Edmonton during -30 weather, is just stupid, but the lefties at city hall have nothing better to do than plan how to make us peasants conform to their socialist ideals, meanwhile our streets are a snowy mess.

I am really, really sick of all the rules and regulations that are designed to take away our freedoms while allowing special interest groups more power. Where has common sense gone?