Goverment-Mob ?

I once again have found myself pondering why people are and why people do. A thing I do to pass the countless hours of boredom I experience daily. Today’s conundrum is: "why in an individualistic society such as ours, do people try so hard to belong to so many different groups instead of truly accepting the individual differences that make us human and display tolerance for those differences. It seems as if everyone is so busy building alliances and preparing for the battle instead of figuring out ways for everyone to live together. Wait a minute, we already do live together. How is that? How have we done that without utter chaos? This might not be as hard as it seems. I guess we can live together. So what causes the tensions? I guess I am okay with how darn near anyone wants to live their life as long as their existence is not based on the destruction of another. I believe the tensions come from when groups try to tell someone how they are supposed to live. Try walking up to the stranger closest to you and say "you are going to live your life like I say because I know what's best for you". Go ahead, I'll wait. What? Don't want to do that? I can't say I blame you. Most individuals would even think of doing that even if they disagreed with the way the person lived. Out of respect for that person’s right to believe in what they want? So why is it when we band together in groups of like minded people do we think that we need to force everyone to believe our way? Do we want to end up with the biggest group? I don't, that’s not freedom, that's communism. What makes us think that just because our group is bigger it gives us the right to tell the others how to live? Isn't freedom supposed to be live and let live as long as it don’t harm? Why do we try to shape freedom? Freedom is I can think anything as long as I don't harm. For some reason it seems as if they think that if it's not in the constitution we don't have the right. I see it the other way around. We have the rights as a basic freedom guaranteed by the constitution until laws are made to take freedoms away. I don't understand the need to have a law that forces me to get insurance. How can I be forced by a government that works for me to purchase something that I don't want to just so the people that do want to won’t have to pay more? Why do I have to lose my freedom to help keep health care cost down for other people when I don’t believe in the system? Why not go after the inflated prices for profits instead of me? You know, I believe my phone bill is too high. I think we should make a law that everyone that does not have service with Qwest should have to pay a fine. That would make my phone cheaper. I know Qwest would like that. I know that’s absurd but that is exactly what the government is trying to do with healthcare. Only the government is Qwest in that case. What gives them that right? Why do we as Americans put up with a mob of criminals in Washington called our government telling us how to live and extorting us to do it in the name of what is best for us? Because we are way too stupid to know what might be best for us and besides that how will the mob I mean government profit from that. To end this rant I will leave you with this. Make no mistake I have no problem with my neighbors no matter what they believe as long as they don't want to bring me harm. My government on the other hand I do have an issue with. They need to secure my freedoms not dictate them to me as they see fit. They are what cause the tensions. Why you say? Profit, there is allot of money in fear.

Erik J Sturm Sr