Is government too intrusive?

In the old days, barber shops were a good front for drug sales and bookmaking.
One of my friend's grandfathers ran a regional bookmaking operation out of his Youngstown, Ohio barbershop. You think people would notice when the barber had the nicest house in town.

As soon as you accept that a group of failed professionals or even worse, just plain bureaucrats can license someone to make a living, you have failed. To claim that they should stop at some arbitrary point is pretty silly, we should not have tolerated the first step. People can evaluate their own professionals or pay the consequence.

The guy to graduate last with his MD is called doctor. We were doomed when we licensed doctors, um I mean modern drug dealers.

The theme, someone else always knows better.

You would think that when someone owned the nicest house in town, that it was none of any elses business how they paid for it, Fred.

I think there are fields that need some standard imposed on them. I do think there are a whole lot less of them that need regulation or credentials.

<Dreamy icon> I see it now.

"Joe, I am new to the neighborhood and need a doctor."

Joe: " Well doc Bob has a lot of credentials on his wall but his last 2 patients died. Better off seeing the vet for that."

on that note wrote: As soon as you accept that a group of failed professionals or even worse, just plain bureaucrats can license someone to make a living, you have failed. To claim that they should stop at some arbitrary point is pretty silly, we should not have tolerated the first step. People can evaluate their own professionals or pay the consequence.

The guy to graduate last with his MD is called doctor. We were doomed when we licensed doctors, um I mean modern drug dealers.

The theme, someone else always knows better.

on that note wrote: You would think that when someone owned the nicest house in town, that it was none of any elses business how they paid for it, Fred.

You haven't lived in a small town before? Everything is everyone's damn business.

Another example: :

NYPD Commissioner says department will begin testing a new high-tech device that scans for concealed weapons

Get ready for scan-and-frisk.

The NYPD will soon deploy new technology allowing police to detect guns carried by criminals without using the typical pat-down procedure, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Wednesday.

The department just received a machine that reads terahertz — the natural energy emitted by people and inanimate objects — and allows police to view concealed weapons from a distance.

NY Daily News

Where is the ACLU? If the damn thing can detect guns, it can also detect, keys, lighters, pipes (the smoking kind) breast implants, what have you.