Well i agree with the first poster, feel the same way. All i can say is that you people should be happy because at least there is a larger group of libertarian minded individuals in US then for example here in my home country Croatia. What 80 years of communist propaganda does to peoples minds is really frightening. The regulation in my country is so stupefying that you feel like living in a Greek comedy. But for most people here it is completely normal because they have been brainwashed for so long by the government, school system and society. In 30 years i have only found 2 libertarian oriented person in this country. All others were either communist, socialist or facist minded.
For example, last year i decided to open up a small private business, sales over the internet and would be doing all work from home. It took me about 1 month walking from one government institution to another one just to get a comprehension of what rules and laws i need to obey. Then it took 1,5 month before all the permitting and registration of the company was done, all in all 2,5 months time spent and 1500 $ just to get the permission to work . Get this, one of the rules are that i need a complete anti-fire system set up, fire extinguisher and smoke alarm in the room where my stock of goods will be. I called up the institution that oversees these kind of laws and explained to them that my "stock" are small products made of glass and iron and quantity wise stacked in 3 moving boxes. The answer was: it is for your own safety in case if a fire would break out, that is the law. I tried to explain to the person that it is in my home and that the room would be more or less the same as before opening up the business, but it was like talking to a well trained parrot. I finally gave in an just bluntly asked, if i choose not to get these gimmicks what then? Person replied: When the inspectors do their yearly check and find that you don't have all the necessary protection they will fine you.
Another mind blowing law is, my friends friend opened up small hair saloon. The saloon is made up of one room 25 m2 large and a small bathroom of 2-3 m2. The only two doors are the entry / exit door to the saloon and the door to the bathroom which is marked with a sign "bathroom". Well when the inspectors came they fined her because she didn't have an "exit" sign above the exit door. Reasoning?, costumers need to know where the exit is in a case of a emergency.
Oh yea..... going back to the financial fraud and central banking. Our central bank sold ALL, yes ALL of the nations gold....... drum rolls ............. in 2001. Not secretively but completely in the open. In exchange for paper euros. At least you have some gold left, mkay tungsten plated gold but still some gold
