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Originally Posted by **********
Are you for real? Here's just a couple of things the government does for you:
- Protects your freedom (though admittedly this may be a little hard to see sometimes unless you squint)
- Educates. Your schools and your kids schools are paid for by the government.
- Improves your health. You and everyone you know live longer now thanks to public sanitation, sewer systems and water treatment. Ever heard of the EPA?
- They build highways you know. And in case you forgot what you use to communicate with these days, they also built the Internet. And not many people know this but the governments (US and Canada) also invested in communication back when the telephone was brand new.
- Who do you think got us into space?
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wow....mark, i'm gonna give you a pass on this one, because i really can't believe this response....
1. protects MY freedom? when was the last time anyone actually came to this country and threatened OUR freedom? this government does nothing but infringe on other peoples freedoms daily.
2. educates who? those that can afford an ivy league education. the rest get lied to with everything from "christopher columbus discovered america" to "god made the earth and all the creatures on it in seven days"
3. our roads, bridges and infrastructure was a great accomplishment sixty years ago. how did all those people live without pavement, sewers, and electricity?
4. health care, yeah, every person on this planet died a horrible death because they couldn't get an hmo, ppo, or fucking blue cross.
5. seriously? the fucking internet and telephones..........yep, Alexander Graham Bell got a huge government subsidy so he could introduce communication to the world.
6.space?????? i'm not sure i follow your logic on that one, but how has space exploration helped your life?.....and last time i checked, nasa was bankrupt and the space program is gone.
no hard feelings, etc etc etc etc etc.....you get the point.
and BTW, i hit you up on skype a while ago.