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Sunday, January 16, 2011

Well now, here's a thought.......

Here's something that I'd like to know about my representatives and senators: Have they ever voted on legislation while they were under the influence of drugs or alcohol? Would they be willing to take drug tests before every vote to prove it?

Seriously... I'm a teacher and I would be willing to take regular drug tests to prove my fitness, as my job is important and young peoples lives depend on me being straight. Would it be too much to ask a legislator to do the same?

What about YOUR legislators? Why not ask them?

1 comment:

JohnMXL said...: I had to pass a drug and alcohol screening prior to my employer offering me a position with the company.

In order to keep my job I have to pass random drug and alcohol screening.

At any time a manager has a reasonable suspicion that I am under the influence of drugs or alcohol on the job I can be sent for testing. If I refuse my employment can be terminated immediately.

At any time a law enforcement officer suspects I am under the influence I can be tested, and if I refuse, my commercial driver's license can be taken on the spot.

Part of these conditions are established by my employer - if I don't like them I can leave the job.

Part of these conditions were established by legislators and bureaucrats who are not bound by the same conditions.

I fix vehicles. My actions and behavior have the potential to immediately affect a small portion of the population.

The actions and behaviors of legislators and bureaucrats affect a much larger portion of the population. Why shouldn't they be expected to prove that they are not under the influence of drugs and/or alcohol?; January 16, 2011 at 8:10 PM

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I have this philosophy.... All humans are faced with a choice.

They can become students of human nature, trying to recognize the good and bad within themselves... or they can choose to ignore human nature, and act simply on drives, desires, and instincts. The former is what sets mankind aside from animals, and the latter is to act as an animal.

Making the first choice is harder, more complicated, and creates a difficult path to follow... for it's the basis of knowing right from wrong. There are those who study human nature, and themselves, and actively try to better themselves and do what is right. There are others... people who study human nature, note the flaws inherent to the unthinking herd, and use them as a means to control.

There is no danger greater than the refusal to see, and to think. Doing so leaves one a pawn to anyone awake, aware, and driven to power over others.

Robert Heinlein

"Do not confuse "duty" with what other people expect of you; they are utterly different. Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily. Paying that debt can entail anything from years of patient work to instant willingness to die. Difficult it may be, but the reward is self-respect.

But there is no reward at all for doing what other people expect of you, and to do so is not merely difficult, but impossible. It is easier to deal with a footpad than it is with the leech who wants "just a few minutes of your time, please — this won't take long." Time is your total capital, and the minutes of your life are painfully few. If you allow yourself to fall into the vice of agreeing to such requests, they quickly snowball to the point where these parasites will use up 100 percent of your time — and squawk for more!
So learn to say No — and to be rude about it when necessary.
Otherwise you will not have time to carry out your duty, or to do your own work, and certainly no time for love and happiness. The termites will nibble away your life and leave none of it for you.

(This rule does not mean that you must not do a favor for a friend, or even a stranger. But let the choice be yours. Don't do it because it is "expected" of you.)"

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.