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Sorry. Cat stepped on the keyboard. Meant to say"is a lie, you just now finding that out?

"I’m here from the Government to help you.” And you are just now finding that out?

Gene--
The only difference is that I would “zero out” the Department of {NEA-Union} Education first.  They and their “rules” have wrecked local education.  I can testify to this first hand after 29 years in the classroom.  That objective, of course was, and is their objective--then they can mold children in their immage without parental controls.
Communist Manifesto 1948.

My mistake.  As us old teachers used to say, “you always see your mistakes on the other side of the duplicator”.

That should have been 1848 !

This was a post by Gene, Don, not me.

I’ll not speak for Gene, but I’m more of a Teddy Roosevelt conservative myself.  I recognize that a certain amount of government influence/backing/management is neccessary to a truly free and prosperous society.

Frankly, I don’t have a problem with tax dollars going to any of those things you mentioned.  I do, however, have a problem with it going to certain welfare/entitlement programs that do little to solve the problems they’re targeting and, in most cases, actually make the problems worse.

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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Government is at it’s worst when trying to do anything other than what it should, keeping our country safe from foreign and domestic enemies.

And yet you’re willing to drive on public roads, enjoy national parks, use public libraries*, keep your money safe in a bank protected by the FDIC, flush your piss into public sewers, drink clean water thanks to the EPA and the Clean Water Act, and use an Internet that grew out of a gov’t/university research project.

Shit, Rob---you couldn’t even be blogging if the New Deal rural electrification hadn’t come out your way!

Kinda hypocritical, don’t you think?

*Okay, perhaps y’all don’t use libraries, but you get my point.

Rob:

I do, however, have a problem with it going to certain welfare/entitlement programs that do little to solve the problems they’re targeting and, in most cases, actually make the problems worse.

Why do you hate jobs so much, Rob?

Don Myers says, And yet you’re willing to drive on public roads, enjoy national parks, use public libraries*, keep your money safe in a bank protected by the FDIC, flush your piss into public sewers, drink clean water thanks to the EPA and the Clean Water Act, and use an Internet that grew out of a gov’t/university research project.

I don’t see any of that listed in the parent article. Do you?

Shit, Rob—you couldn’t even be blogging if the New Deal rural electrification hadn’t come out your way!

Really? I doubt that. There’s money to be made in selling electricity.

Kinda hypocritical, don’t you think?

How Don?

*Okay, perhaps y’all don’t use libraries, but you get my point.

What a foolish comment. I swear, you only comment out the above drivel so that you can get your insults in. You’re like a little kid.

Don, several differences are clearly evident:  I can buy my own books, or borrow them from a neighbor.  I can dig a septic tank instead of using a sewer.  In that case, the government is a local one, like a city or county, NOT the federal government.  I can purchase my own insurance for floods and other disasters and not rely on someone else to bail me out.  Water from a well or other location does not rely on the EPA to insure it’s quality.  I can do that myself, including cleaning it.  Again, this is usually done at the State level.  I can communicate by word of mouth if necessary, pay for the US Mail (at 39 cents starting Jan 8th), or get together with neighbors at the back fence!  If I want electricity, I will pay the local electric company for their service, or secure my own generator.  The real points I made were:  The federal government, that contributes only about 7% of the local education dollars is intruding on the discipline in our schools, and has destroyed our education system as we knew it.  This has been the stated goal of the NEA-Union since the early 70’s.  Local school districts support their own education systems with about 40+% and most states add the 50+% remainder, depending on what part of the country you are from.

Hey Chief, just checked out your blog and wanted to say thanks for your service in Iraq and also, since from the looks of your archives you just got started this month, welcome to the blogosphere.

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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