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The US Government Can't Get Anything Right!

By mpohl, in Speakers Corner

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mpohl    1

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This morning I was awoken by my alarm clock powered by electricity generated by the public power monopoly regulated by the U.S. Department of Energy.

I then took a shower in the clean water provided by a municipal water utility.

After that, I turned on the TV to one of the FCC-regulated channels to see what the National Weather Service of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration determined 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 U.S. Department of Agriculture-inspected food and taking the drugs which have been determined as safe by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

At the appropriate time, as regulated by the U.S. Congress and kept accurate by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the U.S. Naval Observatory, I get into my National Highway Traffic Safety Administration-approved automobile and set out to work on the roads build by the 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 U.S. Postal Service and drop the kids off at the public school.

After spending another day not being maimed or killed at work thanks to the workplace regulations imposed by the Department of Labor and the Occupational Safety and Health administration, enjoying another two meals which again do not kill me because of the USDA, I drive my NHTSA car back home on the DOT roads, to my house which has not burned down in my absence because of the state and local building codes and Fire Marshal’s inspection, and which has not been plundered of all its valuables thanks to the local police department.

And then I log on to 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. “


ABOVE IS OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN, BUT All SO TRUE NEVERTHELESS.

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kallend    2,027

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How could you forget all the materials in the various products you use that were made according to standards promulgated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology?
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FallingOsh    0

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YEAH! None of those advancements were created by private organizations and people.... and all of it is paid for with zero debt... YAH for the government creating a perfect world!

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YEAH! None of those advancements were created by private organizations and people.... and all of it is paid for with zero debt... YAH for the government creating a perfect world!



It may not be perfect, but conditions here in the USA are better than probably 90% of the rest of the world.
When you no longer wish to take advantage of the services rendered by the US Government you are free to live elsewhere.
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dks13827    3

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they even put men on the moon, built Saturn 5 rockets and the Space Shuttle ( with industry help of course ) decades ago !!!!!!!!!!!!! Let's see em do any of that now !!!! they cant.[:/] They cant do it.

Oh, and go to the VA hospital and ask guys in there how they like it !!! I've been in there myself....... it can be pretty bad.

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riddler    0

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When you no longer wish to take advantage of the services rendered by the US Government you are free to live elsewhere.



Man, from all the ranting from the right-wing here, I would've suspected there would be a LOT less cars on the road. But I still see all these cars with "I hate liberal/socialists" bumper-stickers. I would really prefer that they stick to their principles and stay off the roads - there's not enough room for the socialist-loving liberals, as it is.
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lawrocket    3

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This morning I was awoken by my alarm clock powered by electricity generated by the public power monopoly regulated by the U.S. Department of Energy.



So it wasn't Ken Lay's fault? And ask former governor Gray "Gov. Lowbeams" Davis how well government policy worked.

[Reply]I then took a shower in the clean water provided by a municipal water utility.



Funny - I just spent a half hour driving through fallowed fields - seriously. A half hour straight of plowed fallow. It's a congressionally mandated dust bowl here in a large portion of California's Central Valley. Of course, the bay area liberal can suck all the water they want from a reservoir flooding one of Yosemite's majestic valleys. They do this via specific congressional exception.

And - the water here that we CAN get is loaded with bad stuff. Thanks, EPA for setting and enforcing standards.

[Reply]After that, I turned on the TV to one of the FCC-regulated channels to see what the National Weather Service of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration determined the weather was going to be like, using satellites designed, built, and launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.



All the while, Sirius/XM was dying because the FCC took years to approve a merger, while going ape shit over Janet Jackson'w tit.

The FCC is a disgrace, in my opinion.

[Reply]I watched this while eating my breakfast of U.S. Department of Agriculture-inspected food



And we still have recalls. Google "pistacios.". Yeah. They do a great job of getting it at the source.

[Reply] and taking the drugs which have been determined as safe by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.



Like fen-Phen. Ask plaintiffs' lawyers whether the FDA does a good job of ensuring safety. Meanwhile, aspirin would have never been approved.

Do you hate the drug manufacturers, by the way?


[Reply]At the appropriate time, as regulated by the U.S. Congress and kept accurate by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the U.S. Naval Observatory, I get into my National Highway Traffic Safety Administration-approved automobile



A Ford Explorer?

[Reply]and set out to work on the roads build by the local, state, and federal Departments of Transportation
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Built by private contractors being paid by the government, actually.

[Reply]possibly stopping to purchase additional fuel of a quality level determined by the Environmental Protection Agency



Corporate oil hack! Who are you, a mindless Rush Limbaugh mouthpiece?

[Reply]using legal tender issued by the Federal Reserve Bank.



Yes.


[Reply]On the way out the door I deposit any mail I have to be sent out via the U.S. Postal Service



I can't tell you the last time I bought a stamp. I think last December.

[Reply] and drop the kids off at the public school.



I drop mine at a private school. My choice. Public won't take a two year old, who actually now knows more Spanish than me. Singing "Arriba. Abaho."

[Reply]After spending another day not being maimed or killed at work



So you don't actually work for the post office.

[Reply]thanks to the workplace regulations imposed by the Department of Labor and the Occupational Safety and Health administration