Has our country gone crazy?

People have been jailed for selling raw milk labeled as raw milk and growing food in their yards. Yes, the Gov't is out of control.

I know, it's all about people not getting their Obamacare and it's driving them CRAZY!

Quite the virtual Socrates Café here.

empires rise and empires fall.
the available data indicate that is the nature of human societies.
ours is collapsing from it's success - just as those before us.
the USA won't be taken down from the outside but from within - just as those before us.
IMO the main difference, and it is a biggie, is in today's world gvt control over the individual is so much greater. what happens when a tiny UAV can be dispatched to zap any individual?
ultimately when there are more drones than worker bees how can the hive survive?
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"RollerBall"? "Idiocracy"? Both?

No our country hasn't gone crazy.....it's just gone stupid especially when students in our country rank 31st in the world while Shanghi's ranks # 1.

A proper education would solve a world of problems here in the US. Good manners and a proper upbring would help greatly as well.

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"RollerBall"? "Idiocracy"? Both?

The national debt problem has been solved! All the president has to do is direct the Treasury to issue a few One Trillion Dollar coins and pay the debt off with them. Can you imagine the look on the faces of the Chinese who hold many US Treasury notes.

Supporters of the platinum coin option say that under a 1996 law allowing the Treasury Department to mint a platinum coin in any denomination, the president could order the manufacture of, say, a $1 trillion coin that would be deposited in the Federal Reserve. The Treasury Department would then use the platinum coin funds to meet government obligations without the need for Congress to grant any additional spending powers.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/03/platinum-coin-option_n_4351706.html

PROBLEM SOLVED!

what a silly question

More craziness.
Is our government worth the overhead?
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/12/06/regulation-nation-govt-regs-estimated-to-cost-18t/