I would like to post this on a Repug board but I wont join to do it.

[RegieRocker]

Wake up. Socialism is all of us getting together and agreeing to chip in to lower costs for a service. Fire, Police, Schools, Trash Service, Roads and much more. You couldn't afford all these services without socialism. Period. Just what in your minds do you think happens when you send money to a insurance company. When you pay money to the insurance company aren't you doing the same thing? You are all chipping in together to pay for a service. You're getting ripped off. Our president makes $400,00 a yr! The CEO of a insurance company makes millions. You are all brainwashed into thinking that YOUR Government is costly and wastes money. I wonder why that is and who is doing it? From now on send all your mail by UPS or Fed EX and see just how cheap that is for ya. Or better yet ask your State Congressman to privatize your roads and start paying tolls. That should make you feel better. You make the very thing that you cherish out to be a monster. Something to be chained. You're chaining yourselves. Some of you want to take us back to the stone age. Only the rich getting a education. Hear this! The Government is US. If it's not, then you don't live in a democracy. You live in a corporate controlled country. My definition of insanity is someone who believes in two opposing ideas at the same time. So which is it? Is OUR Government a democracy controlled by it's citizens or not? If not then why are you so proud of your country? Freedom what freedom? Without Government there would be anarchy. Make your minds up. Decide one way or the other. We will never be UNITED until we care about each other.

I wrote this years ago.

[pleah]

1. K&R

[Amonester]

2. It's "You're getting ripped off."

Don't expect it to change.

The government for the people by the people has been replaced by the government of the Rich by the Rich now.

Do something about it.

[RegieRocker]

13. It's WE need to do something about it!

[freshwest]

3. Wow that was great

[crikkett]

4. might as well post it here, yhis place is redder by the day

snark aside, great post. we did need to hear that too.

[RegieRocker]

14. I was hoping to reach any reds here.

[quaker bill]

5. The people invented government

were it all to disappear tomorrow, the people would immediately begin to reinvent it. The people who grouse the most about government are generally those who demand the most service from it and are disappointed that it does not immediately respond to their whim.

Folks on the extreme right speak of government as if it was imposed on us by the decree of an alien race. It wasn't. It was invented by the people, largely to regulate the behavior of their neighbors.

Before there were public roads, there were private roads, they were expensive and poorly maintained. Before there were public utilities there were private utilities, the private utilities cornered the market and created false shortages to raise prices to absurd levels, like ENRON. There was a time before nearly all the laws that currently exist were passed, each law was created to solve an apparent problem that really existed before it was passed.

This is how government came to be and how it would be recreated if it were to disappear.

[annabanana]

6. +1 to this. It's amazing how little understanding of this dynamic there

is out there.

[mstinamotorcity]

7. Great Op!!!

Doesn't matter when you wrote it,as long as it applies to the current situation. It does!!!

You don't need to join a repug website to make this point sail. There will be those who will read it and because they still think and behave like repugs, they will not understand.

Most of American society has no idea of what is really going on in and out of our Government and Country. But when you wake up out of the repug induced coma, its so frightening most would rather go back to sleep and dream of obtaining something they have put way out of reach for the average American!!!

You know its bad when their beloved President Reagan stood right in their faces and told them Government is the "Problem" while running for Government and the people actually elected him. He allowed his cronies to rail against unions and he was at one time President of a Union. And he helped bust unions starting with air-traffic controllers.

Just to let you know this is the Republican way!!!!!!!

[panzerfaust]

8. We The People

Thanks

[malaise]

9. Excellent post

Many folks are completely confused because they have never used their own brains for a day. They can't bother to think for themselves so they accept whatever their 'guru' of the moment throws at them.

[mstinamotorcity]

10. True fact!!!

Good Morning Early Bird Malaise!!!!

[malaise]

11. And a good morning to you

:hi:

[mstinamotorcity]

12. My you are

an early riser I thought it was just me who can't sleep past a certain time. Usually 5:30 am. Sent you a Greeting Card hope you got it!!!!!