Originally posted by: Craig234
Originally posted by: GeezerMan
Even Libertarians think the govt should build roads. Roads are used by 99.9% of the population. Pretty much a requirement, and universal good. I don't see any part of this home program that says the general public can come on for a visit when you buy one with the subsidy.
But it's still socialism and therefore wrong!
Look, that road they build in front of a few houses doesn't benefit 99.9% of Americans - just the few who live there. But when you build roads all over it becomes a 'public good'.
So, this subsidy for one house doesn't benefit most, only the few people who live there, but make it a national program, and suddenly it's 'public good' too.
Toss in the benefit to the economy that helps pretty much everyone to seal the deal for your socialist program also being for the 'public good'.
It's all socialism and all bad!
Oh, and now they're talking about somethign called 'Diamond Lanes', and they can do it since they control the roads - abuse of power! They're sneaking them in under the 'carpool' justification, but in no time you know that they'll expand that to theselves and their elitist 'friend' who they give special stickers to. If you don't see that one coming a mile away, you don't have what it takes to be a modern Republican. Just say no!
You know what else pisses me off? The FDA - who is the government to deny me the freedom of choice to get drugs cheaper if I want to avoid all the overhead of their testing - however much they think is the right amount? Why can't the private sector handle this. It can have private labs who test and certify, and people can choose whether to buy cheaper drugs with less certification, or pay more for certification, and drug companies can more efficiently match the testing to the market. Government-monopoly on it is socialism!
I haven't decided yet on the military. It's damn socialist - they can take OUR kids without our say if they restore the draft, but even now, they can send the military places many citizens don't approve of and make us pay for the war - we should let the private sector handle it. If there's a war people really care about, like WWII, lots of people will pay for an efficient military to fight it - and we won't let the government just say what wars our nation fights and we pay for. If it's a bad war, not many will pay, so they can't do much harm.
We can still leave nukes in the hands of the government because it's too dangerous to have them running around in the highest bidder's hands. We're not radicals!
Oh and FDIC insurance. Socialism! Why shoudl the government guarantee deposits - that just makes people let their money stay in bad banks getting misused longer than if they pulled it out when the bank starts taking crazy risks. And that makes the problem worse until we get a big crisis like this. Get rid of FDIC and let consumers pay attention to what their banks are doing and pull their money out when the bank does bad, and we'll prevent crashes! More socialism to get rid of!
Then there's the FAA - you talk about not being a 'public service' - a lot of Americans don't even fly at all, while some fly all the time, but they all have to pay for the monopoly!
Why should people who don't fly have to pay for any FAA?
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