AngryOldGuy
double secret probation
- Joined
- Aug 3, 2013
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- Political Leaning
- Very Conservative
There's these things called 'roads' - you may have heard of them (heck, you might even have one in front of your house!) - and though some of the contractors rip off the taxpayer, it's REAL hard to keep and maintain a first-world infrastructure without keeping those roads in good working order at taxpayer expense. And let's not forget the nationwide regulation of those roads so you don't have wildly varying laws and regulation and signage between the states. And then there's air traffic control - y'know, it's sorta important to get the airlines to play nice with each other so they don't crash into each other. And let's not forget those people who record and assess your property...and protect your rights to your property (at least until eminent domain comes into play).
There's something called 'schools', too. You might not like them, Sam I am, but the better-educated the populace as a whole is (instead of restricting education to only those who can pay for it), the better off the nation is as a whole i.e. it's a heck of a lot easier to train someone even with an eighth-grade reading level than to train someone who can't read at all.
And you're an Old Guy - are you on Medicare? If you don't like it, you can always go out and pay for insurance out-of-pocket...and lucky for you, you can't be denied, thanks to this little something called 'Obamacare'. But if we got rid of Obamacare and Medicare, you and all your friends of a certain age can go out there and try to buy health insurance out-of-pocket, assuming, that is, that you can find an insurance company that would cover an Old Guy like you.
Of course there's organizations that are there to help you in your hour of need - like police, firefighters, courts, social services, and yes, even FEMA. Speaking of which, it's SO interesting how the same conservative lawmakers who were wanting to deny federal aid to the victims of Superstorm Sandy wanted federal aid to help out West, Texas when it got blown partially off the map.
And you're conservative, which means you probably love the military and think we don't spend enough on them - and they are certainly important to maintaining our way of life, since without them, the security of the oil that we import would be endangered.
I mean, c'mon, AOG, you can gripe about that evilbadsocialist guv'mint all you want...but you need it, as long as you live in America. Unless you want to run away to the Alaskan wilderness and go Galt...and see how long that lasts....
the government shouldn't be involved with any of that
US National debt: 16,940,690,852,125.42