Real Life Survival Chronicles
You have seen those articles on how to overcome disasters like a bear attack, bridge collapse, hypothermia, etc. None of these types of calamities are ever likely to happen to you or me. There are, however, real life disasters that you may find yourself in. Quick thinking and being prepared is your best defense.
* A trip to the DMV. How many of us have bought a used car and found ourselves in a 3 hour line waiting to register it and then get charged every year for as long as you own the car. This is a tough situation because all you are waiting for is to pay the State. You get nothing in return. Think clearly. You are dealing with the government. Get out and go to the nearest AAA office where you will be in and out in 15 minutes. Private enterprise does everything quicker and more efficiently than the government.
* Trying to get a refund on a lost package from the post office. Again…the government. Your chances of surviving a plane crash are better. Next time, ship via UPS or Federal Express. Wait until Obama takes over healthcare for real horror stories!
* Encounter with a Fish & Game Officer. I spent a day in jail after giving an undercover Fish & Game Officer $10. He was trying to sell me a snake, and was so irritating that I gave him the $10 to get rid of him. While in jail with the other “snake smugglers”, I heard similar stories of being set up. Cost: $800 with a 3 year probation period. They requested in court that I make my check payable to the Fish & Game Department. Hmmmm…
* California Air Resources Board. Just this week, a trucker in Ontario, California started his truck up and after idling to get pressure in his air tanks, he was approached by a uniformed CARB officer and was notified that he had been idling for four minutes too long. The officer then sat in his own idling car with the air conditioning on for 15 minutes while he wrote out the trucker’s citation for idling for four minutes. The government grows by stealing and they are getting very big.
* Red light cameras. Local governments need money too. Obey the laws as they are dreamed up. Remember when driving and talking on a cell phone was legal? We are not allowed to talk on the phone and drive, but driving while eating fries, a messy hamburger and drinking coffee is alright. I predict they will want more money and that eating while driving will be a freedom of the past too.
* Getting a dog license. What the hell does a dog need a license for? Oh yeah, revenue source.
* Lightning, drowning, poisonous snake bite, major wound, lost at sea. Don’t call 911 if you live in Tracy, California. They will be charging $300 every time you call for help.
Everybody that works for the government has to take from the private sector to survive. And they are doing more than surviving. While jobs in the private sector are being lost at an alarming rate, the government continues to grow. Their benefits are increasing, their pensions are getting bigger and in some cases it is almost impossible to be fired from a government job. With bigger government comes more regulations, more people to enforce them and more taxes, fees, permits, and whatever else they can think of to pay for it all. Like an avalanche, the government is growing dangerously large and grabbing for more and more control of our lives, our money and our freedom. Avalanche! Spread the warning! Scott Alexander
Copyright 2012 by Scott Robert Alexander
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