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Government from local to national is deciding what is "best" for us. California wants to put remote control thermostats in homes because the government knows best. California has decided that children cannot be home schooled unless the parent has a teaching certificate because the government knows best. Mississippi has a bill pending in the legislature that fat people (as defined by the state) cannot be served in restaurants because the government knows best. Texas tells people they cannot play eight liner machines that pay out too much because the government knows best. The United States government tells us what time it is because the government knows best.
I'm tired of the government telling me what is best. I want to return to the days when I was allowed to decide for myself what is best.
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Not that Victoria needs defending, but...
...in the responses to April's story about the coming out bar-b-que, one of the posters made some very unkind remarks about Victoria and those who live here. I'm one of those who moved here on purpose. I grew up in a small town in south-east Texas and, by age 20, couldn't wait to move to Houston where they didn't roll up the sidewalks at nine o'clock. After living more than a quarter century in Houston, seeing traffic get worse each day, knowing that every year several hundred people die in Houston from gunshot, stabbing and auto accidents, watching real world class political corruption at work, and living with pro baseball and football teams that couldn't get it done, my wife and I did move TO Victoria. I couldn't be happier if I was twins. While in Houston, I had a car burglarized and my wife's car was stolen from the employee parking lot at Texas Instruments. In the last five years we lived there, I was witness to two fatal car wrecks just in front of me. The year we moved here, there was one -- count'em ONE -- murder in Victoria. Houston didn't make it twenty minutes into the new year before recording its first of many homicides. When I hear people complain about traffic on Navarro, I just smile and think of the Katy Freeway. There is more to living and enjoying life -- at least for my wife and me -- than the amount of money you make. There is NO WAY we would ever return to living in Houston. So, I'll put up with the narrow minded bigots who hate gays and I'll ignor those who find it necessary to preach in every blog comment they make. I'll lock my door at night, but I no longer sleep with a loaded revolver next to my bed. You can have my spot in the big city and you are welcome to it. Yeah, I took a cut in pay when I moved here, but my wife told me not to worry about that because I'd make more in the long run because I'll live longer.
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posted by
bighorn
on Oct 9, 2008 at 08:03 PM
AND WE MISS HIM REALLY, REALLY, REALLY REALLY. I guess CHOICE means more than abortion to some enlightened folks. Lived in Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, and chose the small town of Victoria over all of those. Contentment in life becomes more important as you mature, RedRag. If you mature, outside and self stimulation will become less important to you as well.
posted by
RedRage00
on Oct 9, 2008 at 03:28 PM
I read all StarsXFive. I still won't be moving back to Hicktoria.
posted by
StarsXFive
on Oct 9, 2008 at 03:23 PM
Hope Red Rage happens to read this.
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