Yeah - what this person said:

[The Straight Story]

This morning I was awoken by my alarm clock powered by electricity generated by the public power monopoly regulated by the US Department of Energy. I then took a shower in the clean water provided by the municipal water supply. After that, I turned the TV to one of the FCC regulated channels to see what the National Weather Service of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration determined what the weather was going to be like using satellites designed, built, and launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. I watched this while eating my breakfast of US Department of Agriculture inspected food and taking drugs which have been determined as safe 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 get into my National Highway Traffic Safety Administration approved automobile and set out to work on the roads built by local, state, and federal Departments of Transportation, possibly stopping to purchase additional fuel of a quality level determined by the Environmental Protection agency, using legal tender issued by the Federal Reserve Bank. On the way out the door I deposit any mail I have to be sent out via the US Postal Service and drop the kids off at the public school.

After work, I drive my NHTSA car back home on the DOT roads, to a house which has not burned down in my absence because of the state and local building codes and Fire Marshal inspection, and which has not been plundered of all its valuables thanks to the local police department.

I then log onto the internet which was developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration and post on freerepublic.com and Fox News forums about how SOCIALISM in medicine is BAD because the Government can't do anything right.

http://www.boingboing.net/2011/07/08/half-of-us-social-pr.html

[xchrom]

1. Simple stuff like this should be used vigorously.

THEN accompanied by - USA! USA!

[21st Century FDR]

2. Overall, that's not bad

But they probably shouldn't have included the "Federal" Reserve (a private bank) or the US Postal Service, which is still technically a Federal entity, but operates on it's own revenue (i.e. selling stamps) not taxes.

[The Straight Story]

7. Perhaps, but both have ties to the government in some for or other and were born

out of them.

[jorno67]

3. K&R

[peacetalksforall]

4. Magnificent! Bravo! This should go around the country and then the world. I hope

it is quoted for a century or two. Thanks.

[saras]

5. Yeah, but none of this is RIGHT. You aren't rich enough to deserve these things.

But I will be, someday. And when that day comes I don't want any of my money wasted putting out fires in poor people's houses. And I have an SUV, what do I need the roads fixed for? I can drive over any fence a poor person can afford to put up, I can drive through potholes that swallow smaller cars, I can't even SEE pedestrians and bikes. And this stupid time standard thing means I can't rip my employees off for fifteen minutes of work a day - that sucks. Building codes are for suckers. You can always hire a builder to make what you want - it's not like you're going to stay there long enough to notice any problems...

likewise for your postal service, your schools, your internet (Fox is good enough for me), the FDA and USDA are jokes, why NOT dismantle them? And MY doctor wouldn't give ME bad drugs, should I care what drugs welfare moms take?

:sarcasm:

[WillyT]

6. HUGE K & R !!!

:kick: