Your first mistake is that you think this was directed to you. It is a general list of unacceptable things that has stripped my rights/money( Obama now has to raise taxes to pay for bush's war). I am well aware that its not the president who passes laws but sets the tone of the administration's direction and what direction he would like congress to go in. Do you really think that loosing habius corpus (because of the patriot act) has not affected you. Dont forget that most of the health bill wont go into affect until 2014 and by then you wont know what rights you have lost from it. The governments way is to implement things slowly so you wont notice. They didn't just start kicking doors down after the patriot act was passed. But if you get caught speeding now and the cop thinks you look shady/millitant/or have a NRA sticker on your car, he can arrest you without any reason, call the Feds/ATF/whatever, and say you look like a terrorist.
I ran a home improvement company at the time of the patriot acts passing, and it had a program called TIPS that I and other professionals (cable/gas/phone workers) who were working in your houses, had to report to the justice department if we thought that you (our customer ) looked shady to us.
Just think, you piss off your flooring contractor and he makes a phone call to homeland security on how you act like a terroist..... NOW THAT IS SCARY BIG GOVERMENT. But thank god that provision was killed.. but not without a lot of republican pushback.
"TIPS, or Terrorism Information and Prevention System, is the latest brainchild of the Bush administration in the war against terrorism. If the media accounts are to believed, TIPS is crafted to transform us into a nation of meddlers, busybodies, and snoops — each of us spying on the rest. By next month, the administration plans to recruit a million volunteers to serve as government informants in ten test cities. If the plan works, the goal is to enroll four percent of all Americans, or about eleven million domestic spies across the nation." (written in 2002 by ap)
I think that the democrats and republicans are the same in government and i dont trust either.... but unlike lots of people who are *****ing/ranting about big government now because of a health bill I was *****ing since 9/11 about big government..
My biggest problem is the fact that the bush administration removed our rights one at a time for 8 years(yes with the dems help) and no republicans/tea party/Independents *****ed...... but whooooh try to help middle class working family's not get F*cked by health insurance companies and its a government take over.
I distrust the government a lot more than the average joe, but if i had a choice i would rather waste my tax money on helping "poor, stupid, middle class, whites, blacks, Hispanics, rednecks, liberal nuts ,right wing nuts, non working welfare slobs,middle class families, or any other person who is an American. Americans in my book, come before any other foreign war-oil company-quake survivors-tsunami survivors-CIA funded Al Qaeda militants- or any other stupid foreign thing Reagan-Bush-Clinton-bush-Obama have waisted my hard earned money on in the last 20 years. It drives me crazy when so called "Patriots" will throw other Americans under the bus so their political party can give our tax money to other countries,companies,dictators, who dont give a sh*t about Americans.
But when it comes down to it... who cares, when your ripping down the highway at 80, supercharger whining, and tool blasting in the backround, leaving a honduuuh in the dust,:th_nanana: thats why we are all here talking.
I would hope our political spats dont change a thing when it comes to cars and exchanging info/help for our fellow car nuts.
How is this limiting your growth? 
