A slave is: One who is abjectly subservient to a specified person or influence (in this case massa is the FedGov.)
The top ten ways the U.S. Federal Government has made U.S. Citizens slaves:
- Mandatory seat belt laws – FedGov owns your body and makes decisions about how you treat it. You must strap it in or you will be fined!
- OSHA – These folks spend all day designing rules that are supposed to keep us safe in the workplace. Sometimes they actually accomplish this. Mostly, they just make it more expensive to get things done. Ask any small business owner who has ever been bankrupted by one of their rules. Ask that small business owner’s former employees.
- Patriot Act – Secret searches, secret judges. FedGov has removed a number of checks and balances to make it easier to spy on you. All it has to do is label you a terrorist. The word terrorist is quickly changing meaning. It now means "anyone who presents any challenge to the existing federal government."
- Medicare – FedGov takes money you have earned and sets standards about what types of medical care that money will be used to provide to you. Takes a cut of that money in process.
- Social Security (FICA) – FedGov takes money you have earned and uses it for a plethora of other purposes throughout your entire adult life. Does not pay you interest. Gives you back a little bit of the money in your old age if you are lucky.
- ATF – The Department of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. FedGov uses this group of testosterone imbalanced mental cases to regulate and tax three completely unrelated government regulated items. They routinely violate the Bill of Rights in the pursuit of FedGov desires.
- DEA – Another constitutionally nonauthorized group of rogue agents whose job is to accelerate the process of helping drug addicts destroy their own lives by imprisoning them, seizing their property and violating their civil rights in any number of ways.
- TSA – The Transportation "Security" Authority makes all the rules related to airline security. Their crowning achievements – ensuring you cannot have matches on board a plane and that you are promptly arrested if you display a bad attitude about being treated like a herd animal while attempting to pass through airport screenings.
- Fiat currency – a monetary standard with zero value. All money printed in the United States was backed by gold in the past. Now it’s just made up as the government needs it. The green paper you use to value everything in your life has no value because it is backed up by nothing tangible.
- IRS – The number one way that the FedGov has declared that it owns you is the Internal Revenue Service, which steals your money from you before it is ever even doled out by your employer. If a private citizen tried to do this it would be called theft. But when the IRS does it it’s called "voluntary" taxation. Funny, I don’t remember volunteering to be a government slave. I’m only cooperating because you have more guns.
Who owns you? They do, that’s who.
Author’s note: I’d love to hear your feedback, here or via e-mail. Do you agree with my top ten list? Let me know how you would change it. Feel free to revise and redistribute it. I’ll try to update it as I receive feedback and reconsider what I’ve written.