Three questions

This from an email:
‘These three, short sentences tell you a lot about the direction of our current government and cultural environment:
1.)     We are advised NOT to judge ALL Muslims by the actions of a few lunatics, but we ARE encouraged to judge ALL gun owners by the actions of a few lunatics.
2.)     Seems we constantly hear about how Social Security is going to run out of money. How come we never hear about welfare or food stamps running out of money?  What’s interesting is the first group “worked for” their money, but the second didn’t.
3.)     Why are we cutting benefits for our veterans,no pay raises for our military and cutting our army to a level lower than before WWII, but we are not stopping payments to illegal aliens such as monthly payments for each child,money for housing, food stamps, free education including college and also the right to vote?
Thanks JB for that.   

Naive Kiwis will welcome them:

‘The Australian navy has pushed a boatload of asylum-seekers from Bangladesh, Myanmar and Sri Lanka who were bound for New Zealand back into Indonesian waters, police on the archipelago have declared.
The 65 migrants were intercepted by the Australian navy and had since come ashore, said Hidayat, a police official on Rote Island in Indonesia’s east…’
Should boatloads of these economic invaders make it to NZ, I’ve no doubt the usual slimy do-gooders will be falling over themselves to find them accommodation and jobs at the taxpayer’s expense. And the media will persist in describing them as “asylum-seekers”, despite all the evidence to the contrary.

On crony capitalism and defence.

Break up the RAF and stop buying British
So that’s it then: Britain’s just a third-class power. And yet our defence budget is the fifth biggest in the world. It’s around the same as that of France, and France has a proper aircraft carrier – complete with planes. France also has hundreds of operational strike jets, not scores; it has maritime-patrol planes; its army may soon have twice as many soldiers as ours.
Why don’t we have all that?
The answer is, mostly, the British defence industry….’

Merely voting won’t fix it:

‘The Modern World Is A Prison With Invisible Walls

..The Stasi aren’t coming. They are already here. You’re in occupied territory. We’re the outlaws in our own lands. The secret police are already knocking at your door and creeping up your stairs. The government wants to listen to your phone calls and read your emails without a warrant. They want to be in your television watching and listening in your living rooms and bedrooms. They’re talking to your children when you’re not around. They want to know where you’re going, who you are with and what you’re up to. Far off into the future, when science makes it possible to observe someone’s thoughts, would you trust the government not to use that against you? They will, unless we stop them now…’