What good are laws, when the government don't enforce them?callmeslick wrote:sadly, you have this moribund view(shared, as I have been noting on a thread in another forum, by most 'conservatives) that everything is just going to shit. It isn't. The nation is recovering, pretty well, actually, from a very nasty economic shock. In fact, anyone who studies economics or even cares to learn about same will tell you that the US has survived THREE major economic shocks in a little over a decade: The derivative bubble, the 9/11 effects and the housing bubble. Despite that, and completely in opposition to your gloom and doom, we are still LARGELY a nation of laws, a nation of hard work and the economic driver of the world economy. I'm ok with where we are, and especially optimistic of where we are going, as a nation. We are, as a people, becoming more aware of, and tolerant about, diversity, immigration and basic societal fairness. Are there bumps along the road? Sure. Will there be events on the national or world stage none of us(Presidents included) forsee? Sure, again. But, I have faith in the US.....it seems ever more of us do, too.
Non-enforcement leads to?
Glad ya have the "faith". That's all that willfully ignorant people, have to cling on.
There is no "rule of law", when it's ignored. Condoned. Pardoned. Accepted.
Think about it. What good is a contract? When you can willfully ignore the terms of it. What good is a insurance policy? When you can ignore it's provisions. You seem to make every excuse imaginable to turn your back on the facts. When that doesn't work? You choose to not answer.
