Comments on: Nanny State on Steroids

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:04:00 +0000

How ironic that they use a ‘sleeping’ metaphor! Whenever we ‘sleep walk’ into conformity and blind acceptance then that surely means we are susceptible to a cult mentality. Just because messages come form ‘formal gorvernment’ doesn’t mean they won’t use exactly the same types of social influence techniques that a cult would use to get compliance. Wrapping people up in the warm blanket of the Nanny State is purposely designed to lull us into a sleepy comfort zone so that we become increasingly susceptible to future messages. Stay awake folks!

By: Mari

Mari — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:26:00 +0000

Note the couple is AfroAmerican. If you see another one of these pay special attention to the ethnicity or signals of ethnicity. They are targeting my people. The idea is to battle single motherhood and to do that you gotta try to keep het couples together because married couples tend to use fewer social services than the stressed out single moms and disconnected fathers.
Is it any of the govt’s buziness? Depends on where you sit on the marriage debates. Really keeping marriages together is organized religion’s job (not disorganized religion, don’t put them in charge of anything), not the State’s.

By: David

David — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:53:00 +0000

We are all helpless againt the manipulations of advertising- Galbraith said so 50 yrs. ago. How will the DC registrar of marriages cope with the stampede of applicants for marriage licenses that this poster will no doubt initiate? We’ll probably need some federal dollars to help the DC muni govt. hire more clerks to deal with the increased demand. See, it’s about creating jobs!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 05:34:00 +0000

That’s a laugh. Our taxes went up 11% when we got married, just by switching filing from singly to “married filing whatever”. So OF COURSE they want people to get married. Except for low income people. They typically get a tax break when married. Thus all the government programs promoting single motherhood amongst the poor.Politicians are such a disgusting lot.

By: Gil

Gil — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 02:46:00 +0000

Of course, it has been long noted that a toddler has an open mind which rapidly absorbs information and they will anything called “the truth” as trugh. Hence the quote “give me the child’s first seven years and he’s mine for life”.