Posted on 09/20/2011 5:31:39 AM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER
You could walk out from the cities to where the people grow your food I suppose.
You seem to be critical of the roads that are spoiling your pristine wilderness. Am I misinterpreting what you are saying?
Junk mail is the Postal Service’s cash cow. It’s the snail mail equivalent of spam, slowing down the system.
A friend of mine found out that the USPS does no forward junk mail. So he got a post office box and has his home mail forwarded there spam free.
I don't worship the environment. God gave it to us to use ( as in “dress this garden”). I am merely thinking like a Libertarian.
But....Think about government subsidies and the unintended consequences.
If government didn't own and run schools, and expand schools or build new schools when a development pops up, perhaps parents would voluntarily choose to live in areas with existing private schools with more convenient transportation. Perhaps there would be fewer suburbs and our cities would be populated with middle class families, and city life would be safer and more vibrant.
USPS and the taxpayers subsidize mail delivery to rural areas. The same stamps delivers a letter to the tundra as it does down the block in Manhattan. The U.S. Postal Service is just one more way that government ( using other people's ) money makes it easier for people to live in remote areas. The more people in sensitive area, the more damage that will result.
I should not have used roads as an example. Roads really aren't a good example, of government subsidized environmental destruction, because gasoline taxes should pay for roads. The more miles driven the more a person pays in taxes. That seems eminently fair! These taxes are reflected in the cost of a product than any citizen buys.
They are cheaper and faster than UPS and FedEx. The packages I get from UPS are often in bad shape. I have been very satisfied with USPS.
” The more miles driven the more a person pays in taxes. That seems eminently fair!”
This happens now. With the 47 cent federal gas tax.
One of the few thing that government should do IMO is to have a gasoline tax that goes to building and maintaining roads.
What if the people that move out side the cities hired their own teachers? That seemed to be the norm before the progressives thought that government could teach the children better than independently hired teachers. I’m all for removing government from education, health care, housing, food, drugs, insurance.
One thing that ties this country together is the interstate highway system. It allows people to easily flee failed experiments in social engineering done by cites and states. The interstate highway system was done originally for national security to quickly transport armies. It had the added benefit of making us a footloose and free nation. It promoted commerce and introduced competition where there was none before. All the dollars spent on our road system have paid for themselves many times over.
Article I, Section Eight of the U.S. Constitution specifically authorizes Congress the enumerated power “to establish post offices and post roads.” The U.S. Supreme Court later interpreted this clause to allow the creation of postal roads that were used for other concurrent purposes.
If we had all stayed on the East Cost and saved the land for the native Americans, the shining city on the hill would have remained a very dim light indeed.
Our cities are cesspools because Democrats have a stranglehold on the major cities’ political systems. Not because of white flight. Ask a New Yorker how dramatically NYC changed under Giuliani. It’s astounding when you have a city leader who will not accept that cities have to be dirty, crime ridden hell holes.
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