[Dianna1395]

There's a film about GMO, its GMO OMG

I'm more worried if they take genes from something unrelated like from insects, I hope they don't.

You mean like jellyfish genes being injected into plants we eat?
Already been done.

I think most of us align with Libertarian/Anarchist/ "Leave me the F alone" type politics, generally. No interest in allowing Gov't into our lives more than we have to. We want to be in control (for obvious reasons), and since there's a lot of rumbling about GMOs (allowing them to cross-pollinate, for example; injecting genes of animals into plants, and vice-versa; gene therapies for humans, which involve viral delivery methods)...
And we have history to look at for other examples - Rome fell from within, the barbarians sacked it while the people cheered in the Colloseum. No need to disturb the Romans...
Russia (Czarist), then the USSR.... Pretty soon the USSA, but I'm certain there will be a push to get us all chipped and controlled first - and disarmed. We're over halfway there already; how many of us (like me) have a smart phone attached at the ear most of the day? Or are busy looking at it, rather than learning to talk to others? No religion is acceptable, except Statism and Islam (Funny how those two fit together....)

All I want is an honest day's pay for an honest day's work, so I can then enjoy the time I'm NOT working however I want. But the groundwork is being laid to ensure that we're reduced to "human resources," virtually interchangeable cogs in the cartel (corporatist) social order. And I'm high enough in the organizations - a few steps down from CEO, usually no more than 4 - that I KNOW this stuff isn't accidental. Lunatics are running the asylum, and most people are too unaware, and uncaring, to even WAKE UP and smell the BS.
Smart, intelligent, capable, professional people refuse to see the forest for the trees. think they can vote the bums out - as we've done so many times before. (Congress, with an 11% approval rating, was re-elected about 94% of the time.)

The POTUS (I have other terms for it) is busy destroying our country as fast as he can. Where are all the anti-war protestors? Oh, it's a DEMOCRAT in the White House, they're on sabbatical until the Republicans are back in - when we'll get to see the caskets returning our troops home, day in and day out again.

Seems (I'm going to butcher this) if you want to use force on those OUTSIDE the country - to, you know, "spread American Values" like voting for which master runs the plantation* - then you're a Rupblican. If you want to turn that same security apparattus inwards, and use force at home to keep the proles in line (Defend the "right" to "gay Marriage," say - by censoring everyone who disagrees, and using the police to enforce "tolerance" - through brutality), then you're a Democrat. And if you don't want to sue force on anyone, and jsut want to be left alone to tend to your own life as you see fit - everyone thinks you're mentally ill.
*(Hence the black flag as my avatar. I was once a Republican... Black Flag is anarchist. :-P )

Corporations are people before the law. While we pay income taxes up the wazoo, corporations like GE get NEGATIVE TAXATION. They receive more than they pay.

How does ANYONE survive, even at the household Median income levels? Let alone at levels we call poverty?
And why do we allow these (unelected) individuals to run roughshod over all of us? Head of Monsanto? Replaceable. Which version is better, live psychopath or fertilizer? And it's across the boards - hospitals run as "for profit" organizations (My mother's working out the details of dad's medical billings - he died just over a year ago - she's still getting NEW BILLS!!!! They didn't charge enough for X, Y, Z, procedures.)
One of the reasons I've been keeping my head down all over. Now I'm so ornery and "old" I'm not willing to let these young "useful idiots" keep screwing things up - What can you take from me, my life? PLEASE! I'll give it away with BOTH HANDS! I go from a noisy chihuahua-type boss at work, to another at home, and I get NO peace of mind. So I'll give up that life, as long as I can give you a piece of your own mind... Maybe I can make the world a little better in passing.

Now, I don't begrudge companies making profits, not at all. I despise the distortion of the market, through creating barriers to entry - effectively, ensuring the free market CANNOT exist. E.G., EPA regulations, which shut down the last US lead smelting plant. That raises prices on all lead products. Ammunition, obviously, but also weights for your car. Mold elements (Meaning, molds for making things.) Fishing weights. Solder. Metal alloys, some will increase in price. All your electronics will have a price increase. That's the direct stuff. Indirectly? Delivery prices go up. Shipping prices. Banking costs. Fuel prices. WTF is going on? This isn't complex, it's BASIC economics.
But when the CEO earns 100X or more what the average worker in the same company earns? something's WRONG. That's a modern development. Gordon Gecko's speech is even more appropriate today than the 80s. "Greed is GOOD..."

But I don't want to be classified, ordered, told what I can and cannot buy, forced (at gunpoint, really) to pay for "MY" land, told what can and cannot do on "MY" land, etc. We're being ordered to buy insurance here. Cars were the test run; auto insurance MUST be purchased - yet we STILL have a line item for "uninsired/underinsured drivers." And what happened to the costs since it was mandated? Skyrocketed.
Guess what's happening with HEALTH insurance, now that it's "FREE"? Premiums are doubling and tripling - and those who cannot afford insurance before - will now be arrested and charged with crimes for being unable to afford it NOW.
Debtor's prisons are illegal here... but then, so are DUI checkpoints, UN treaties that override US law, pleading the fifth as a sign of guilt (it CAN be used against you now, did you know...?), in fact - the entire "DRIVING" system is illegal, because it hinges on the legal term "DRIVER" - which is a PERSON FOR HIRE, such as a limo or taxi driver. Not the average person traversing the land in their personal conveyance.

Ever read 1984? Brave New World? Seen Equilibrium? Clockwork Orange?
We're headed in the wrong direction on EVERYTHING. No matter who wins the election, WE LOSE. The only options are to start resisting, legally when possible, and moving the the gray areas as the noose tightens...

Anyway, I think everyone liked me better when I was lurking - I'll try to STFU. ;-)