Posted on 04/13/2010 4:08:14 PM PDT by bonidee
I woke up this morning to the sound of my alarm clock, which is powered by electricity provided by the public power monopoly that is regulated by the US Department of Energy. I then proceeded to take a shower in clean, drinkable water from the Municipal Water Utility. After that, I watched on of the FCC regulated channels on my TV to see what the National Weather Service of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration determinded the weather would be like by usinc satellites launced, maintained, designed and built by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. I watched this while eating my breakfast of US Department of Agriculture inspected food and taking my medication that was deemed safe for me to use by the Food and Drug Administration.
At the appropriate time as regulated by the US Congress and kept accurate by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the US Naval Observatory, I got into my National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration approved automobile and set out on roads built by local, state and federal Departments of Transportation. I stopped and purchased fuel of a quality level determined by the Environmental Protection Agency using legal tender issued by the Federal Reserve Bank.
After work, I drove my NHTSA car back over the DOT roads, to a house which has not burned down in my absence thanks to state and local building codes, as well as the fire marshall's inspection. In the event that it had been set ablaze, I would expect for the fire department to make themselves present and douse the flames. Upon realizing that this hasn't happened, I also noticed that my residence had also not been plundered of all its valuables thanks to the local police fighting crime in my neighborhood.
I then log onto the internet, which was developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration and post on freerepublic.com and the Fox News Forums about now Socialism in medicine is bad and the government can't do anything right.
You go to a “community college” don’t you?
Viking Kitties never sleep ;)
Good. Now pay your frickin’ taxes and leave us alone.
Sigh... the government is so wise! isnt it.
We should let them run everything for us.
what ever would we do if we didn’t have a Govt hey?
ARF
maybe the troll could explain why the Govt runs things into the ground as there is not one thing they run well and then they want now the health care where the Govt needs to know how much I have in the bank and why is the IRS coming after people who do not get what the Govt wants me to pay for?
know first hand
Hey n00b! Ever hear of a draft notice? That’s another thing the government did pretty well. Yours is on the way.
gtfo
In some places you don’t have to pay a cat tax... yet.
DONKEY BONER!!!
There had to have been at least one wank during the routine...
Your outlook on life deserves pity.
Thank you!
You forgot to mention your government issued brain with automatic updates.
wOW this account got terminated already? shoot i cant even IBTZ..cripes...well bonidee good luck wherever you are and dont ya’ll come back..you hear?
Well i guess you wont hear cause you been terminated by the power that be...
I don’t have cats, but I do believe you have to pay to license them in this city...
And he probably is too stupid to see the VAST amounts of waste and fraud in nearly every single one of the programs or agencies he mentions.
Even the standards only come about because private industry forces it- but the goivernment has kept us on English unites when the entire world is metric...
Roads are built SO CHEAP and NEVER spend millions and millions re-doing roads just so Guido and Joey Bannas can ‘get the contract’ (same for garbage disposal)
The internet is FREE and has exploded with success- we would all be using 33Kbaud Modems (over phone lines for those of you too young to remember) if the govt was really in charge of THAT technology.
Idiots think because the sun came up today it is because the government said so. Good things happen DESPITE the government, and if you take the time to look into every single one of these things you will see government stupidity some where.
Sounds like good propaganda, too bad its false.
There are appropriate functions of government, and then there are inappropriate functions of government. Just because regulation of municipal water supplies is good public policy, it does not necessarily follow that a federal mandate that I buy a specific type of medical insurance is also good public policy.
If you can’t figure that out, then it is useless having a debate.
That’s one cagey buzzard right there...
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