Continued: I hear people say the Post Office is slow and inefficient. I hear them say that FedEx and UPS can do better. OK, try sending a letter by either of those companies. A stamp costs about .44 cents. FedEx and UPS cost about $5. Try letting the Post Office raise its prices to something even close to competitive like maybe $1.50 and there would be no problem. THE PROBLEM with the US Postal Service is .... SURPRISE!!! GOVERNMENT INTERFERENCE!

The whole Post Office thing is a load of crap and distraction. The Post Office does not cost the US taxpayer a penny. Not one. On the other hand, the US Government has been raping the Post Office for years at the rate of over 8 Billion dollars through some weird accounting trick. The US Gov has passed rules that the Post Office has to fund their retirement packages for something like 10 years IN ADVANCE of any new obligation. The Congress is the one who decides whether the Post Office may raise the price of their stamps and have used it for decades as a freebie "NO" that they can show to their constituents how they are saving them money.

I'm not sure that the "important jobs" actually qualify for that epithet. If you think that they have long hours you should really look at being an at home mother/wife/homemaker. If society continues to melt down at the rate of speed that it is, all the engineering and banking in the world will have no value. In the years from 1950 to today (62) there has been an accelerating loss of progress on the social scene, in society. We are beginning to devolve as a species at least in the USA-Euro population because we have lost the "Glue" created by women. Marriage was/is a bond ... not only with each other ... but as a promise to ensuring the future of the species. Strong marriages and strong families are the only assurance that there is.

Do I really seem angry to you? That is truly not my intent. I firmly believe that women have been and always will be the more important gender. When it comes to "telling women what to do", I will not try to say that it didn't often occur or that there weren't abuses but ... in many situations, women were on top of it. Women have typically been able to out think and manipulate their men into doing "the right thing". That which you describe as "AMERICA" is a product of thousands of years of social engineering and women were by and large the engineers. Today they are just worker ants like most men. It seems a terrible deal that they made.

Parenthood is IMPORTANT. Motherhood and the "complete" duties of being a housewife are complex as well as sorely missed by our society today. Some may consider it sexist but, Women were the support system of the entire family structure. They are what kept the family together, prosperous, on-track and socially involved. Women were our neighborhoods. Women were the moral backbone of our families, our nation. Women had the MOST IMPORTANT "job" in our society. Historically, men have ALWAYS been replaceable. Women have NEVER been. Women were made to feel un-needed in their most important role. They gave that up and now are giving up on marriage as un-necessary to a family or child rearing. As a society, we did this to OURSELVES.

Women began to enter the workplace in droves. Women began to be identified by their jobs just like men. Equal pay for equal work became the mantra. With so many new workers the wage rate fell to where the men are many times earning what the women are earning ... not that women are earning what the men were. Women somehow decided that men would take up their historical "job". Some have ... but poorly. Most men have not as they have neither the background, instinctual genetic aptitude, interest or social backing to do this. "Mr. Mom" is a cute comedy but very few understand a man taking that role as having an important job. Today, most families are "Double Income" and can't make their bills or social-familial obligations.

In the late 1960's and early 70's women were told via Media and many social connections that the role of being a wife, mother and homemaker was unfulfilling, unrewarding, a waste of their talent and, in effect, being lazy. Homemakers and housewives began to be looked down upon by much of society. At the same time we were being told that "zero population" was necessary to maintain our quality of life. At this time a very large percentage of the households were "single earner". Women willingly gave up the most important job of child rearing, house keeping, family caretaker, social networking ... maintainers of civilization. To get a job and "become somebody" ... !

Crime Syndicates (Mafia and similar) is EXACTLY the same as Drug Cartels ... no difference. As to what kind of power can come from that type of crime, see the story of the KENNEDY family. I don't even disagree with the Kennedy's. If Our Government passes a "law" in order to help US take CARE of OURSELVES, it's NOT doing its job, its sticking it nose where it doesn't belong. Today there is too much money being made by both sides. The Cartel, The Prisons, The Police, The Government, even The Military. The profit incentive is too pervasive to allow anyone to back off. If people can't control themselves, that's THEIR problem. Why should the Government make it MINE? Or YOURS? It's YOUR RESPONSIBILITY to know your limit and live within them

The short answer is: YES! If your state does something you don't like, you can then either work against it in your local area/state or move to a state that is more in line with the way you think or want to live your life. That was the original intention of State's Rights. The likelihood of a state approving the more extreme aspects of your question is very tiny. Basically, the more extreme the behavior or permission, the fewer people are involved in it. Or support it. The idea is that, like everything else, the question is brought to a vote. Legalizing "Murder" and "Rape" have actually few ardent "followers" and should be very easy to beat.

Ah ... no ... Prohibition was about alcohol. The flap over marijuana was started around 1936 by a film named "Reefer Madness" and was further pushed by William Hearst (?) and Anslinger (a frustrated leftover Assistant Prohibition Commissioner in the Bureau of Prohibition in 1930) and finally, Controlled Substances Act of 1970. The original "law" crashed huge industries in the USA (like cordage ... the making of rope ...) Using primarily wildly false accusations and statements, racial fears, and mass hysteria (white women dragged away into sexual slavery by the black man ... and others!!! Wild eyed pot crazed fiends murdering the multitude without remorse!!!) Today there is too much money in it to let it go.