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Old 09-08-2014, 07:39 PM   #11
Crazy Dazz
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Default Re: "First World Problems" - Take time to smell the flowers?

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Originally Posted by GT-0733 View Post
it's pretty hard to chill out when government has so much control over what you want/need.
and that's the thing isn't.
I have no problem with the government controlling things that need to be controlled, but when they start mandating how big your toilet flush can be, and how I use the water from my own bore, and how many cm I encroach the footpath with my car, then I reckon they've lost the plot.
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Originally Posted by GT-0733 View Post
we are born in a country where government tries to get every last cent from you for those trivial things and employs thugs to do it. this turns ordinary citizens into fine payers and criminals.
yep, I got a $160 fine the other day, because Tied up with the engines off in MY pen at a private marina, my boat is deemed to be "operating in Navigable Waters."
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