Wow! Look at how "hysterical" and "poutraged" all of DU USED to be...

[timdog44]

75. We are definitely crossing into

a new generation of life. It is scary. I don't think the NSA has the ability to "put it all together". Maybe the "red flagged" things. Like when you have a computer program do your taxes. At the end it tells you if your forms will be red flagged because of things that lead to cheating. So, if a person lives a "red flag" life, they are going to be looked at more than I am in Hicksville, out in the country on my two acres, not breaking any laws.

Businesses spy on us because we let them. We want things cheap and don't want to pay taxes on the products and so we buy on the internet instead of supporting our local businesses. We have let the big box companies take us over. Walmart, Sam's Club, Lowes, Home Depot, Menards. For every one of these stores we have lost a host of hometown businesses. And the employees are paid so little that we have to pay for their medicaid and food stamps. Not bad mouthing these people, they need the help. But we have created our own monster in this regard. And this may be off the subject, but because we want a certain product to be cheaply purchased, we go to these big box stores that mine our information. Pay by cash. Credit card history defines your life. We need to take control of our own lives before we can expect the government to change the way they operate.