[Land-speed] NON LSR Political RANT

[sparky.2211 at cox.net]

 and do nothing productive in return.---
their job is to let you spread your risk---for a fee---if you want it---optional untill now

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> Did you notice that (admittedly with some federal help for the very > poor) people are being forced to buy insurance from those corporate > vultures?   What the heck is Socialist / > Communist / Maoist / Nazi about that?

  Maybe, just maybe : your own words laid it out pretty well for us.


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> Secondly, there are a lot of people running around pretending to be 
> "patriots".... yet what is patriotic about working against "the common 
> welfare" (heard those words before?).  It seems to me that some folks 
> want no taxes, no government, and complete "freedom".  Well, if you have 
> that, you don't have a nation.  A nation is a bunch of people working 
> together to promote the common good.  We're in it *together*.  Sure, the 
> line has to be drawn somewhere between anarchy and totalitarianism, but 
> I fail to see how making a weak, compromised effort to rein in the 
> abuses of the insurance industry is going too far.  This whole thing is 
> blown grossly out of proportion.
> 
> Third, I'd just like to mention a few of our horrible Socialist 
> institutions..... schools, libraries, roads, fire departments, the FAA, 
> police departments, the military, the Coast Guard, the National Weather 
> Service, NOAA, the US Geologic Survey, Forest Service, BLM, and every 
> town, city, county and state government that provides water, sewer, 
> garbage collection....... and paid the guy to drive the snow plow that 
> made it possible for me to get home a couple nights ago.  

Bob you are lumping lots of OPTIONAL govt.institutions and optional services with few mentioned Fed responsibilities!

Shore-border defense---turn the fedral lands over to the States like in Texas and you have fewer beruacrats required---the mail got deliverd for may years by contract carriers in many areas---on and on> 
>

 Add to that Social Security, a program infinitely more Socialistic than 
> anything in the 'health reform' bill.  

That didn't seem to destroy the > country.  In fact, I know a lot of people (who paid into it all along) 
> who think it's a pretty good program.
> 
> 
Looking at all this in the light of history and the experiences of other 
 'advanced' nations, I sure can't fathom what all the hysteria is about.

We are trying to not reach their ADVANCED STATE of detoriation!!!
> 
> Bob C.
>  
 Bob you got it right we, --agree on someting---- we US citizens are abuch of D As

The debate is about the SUBJECT MATTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!


> PS, Where were all the anti-tax deficit hawks when the Bush 
> administration was sending the deficit through the roof? 

 A lot of us were SCREAMING!!!!!!!!!!

Wm. T. Smith
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