Journal Roblimo's Journal: Yet Another Example of Socialism in My Neighborhood 3
So here I am, reading newspapers online and preparing for another day of boring video editing, and a noise out front captures my ears. It is the sound of socialism in action -- in the form of a county-owned street cleaning truck coming up our street.
Socializing health care would obviously be an evil move. Just ask any recipient of Social(ist) Security or Medicare around here, and they'll tell you in detail why only the "Greatest Generation" deserves government help with living expenses and medical care. But age-discriminating welfare and medical treatment are not the only bits of government socialism against which we must fight if we want to return America to the way it was when Our Founders walked the land.
Do you think Samuel Adams advocated socialist, government-paid street cleaning? No way! He lived in cities full of horse poop and liked it. George Washington never spoke out in favor of public sewer systems. Thomas Jefferson didn't talk about taxpayer-supported ambulance service.
Fellow Americans, government takes away far too many of our rights. Back in the good old days we had the right to buy tainted meat, take drugs that had opium as their main ingredient, and to live on garbage-strewn, poop-littered dirt roads that didn't have sidewalks.
Sidewalks are another bit of socialism. Believe me, Our Founders didn't write the need for them into the Constitution for good reason.
And let's not forget traffic signals. They are yet another way the government tries to take away our rights and regulate our everyday behavior.
It is time for all right-thinking Americans to band together to reclaim our country. We must protest socialist streetcleaning and waste removal. We must lay down in front of socialized ambulances and fire trucks. We must fight against socialist public-option health care, socialist police, socialist schools, socialist roads and sidewalks, socialist food and drug regulations, and all the other ways government intrudes in our lives.
We must take back America. To arms, fellow citizens! To arms!!!
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Private Fire Brigades. (Score:2)
They were a key element in the financial rise of Marcus Licinius Crassus - which certainly doomed the Republican government of Rome - concentrating power in Crassus and those he favoured which included the financing Caesar Julius.
Crassus ran real estate, insurance and fire-brigade services. He was at an intersection to extort huge amounts of money from people at the point of catastrophic loss.
It was hugely successful for him, in terms of a market.
http://www.google.com/search?q=crassus+fire+department [google.com]
Wisdom is best expressed with humor? (Score:2)
Until the social (status quo) security killing starts, then it is just revolution with the aristocracy/plutocracy remaining clueless at best.
England, France, Russia...
Those who never see a reason for change will others to death, or seek extinction by environmental irrelevance.
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