It's always depressing to me when I see this sort of stuff thrown in my face, realizing that its true, and then remembering how the majority of these crooks just continue to be re-elected time after time by a voting constituent that just doesn't seem to care...

The Mass. election was a breath of fresh air, and while your post is certainly creative, I challenge you and everyone who might read it, to send a copy of the text to every member of Congress and remind each member that you and your family vote.

It's pretty easy to post on TER, but it takes a little effort to send letters... But, it's so worth it... just look at what can happen as evidenced by our friends in Mass.

Best thing about the new senator from the republic of Massachusettes....

he has done nude photos of himself... and offered his daughters as "available!"  Although he did not specify as to what they are available for!!!!

Seriously, something is tragically wrong with our systme.... we have generations now who actually believe that the govenment is there to provide every last human want and need for them and that society "owes" them support.

We need to go back to the founding colonies... where they tried the communal approach... it failed, people starved and died cause they all though someone else would take care of them.  It was only after these early failures that they realized that self-reliance was not just a good thing, but a necessary thing, as it motivated people in a way that nothing else would.

"It is now official you are ALL corrupt morons. You have FAILED in every "Government Service" you have shoved down our throats while overspending our tax dollars and"

I submit the OP is "corrupt moron", all he can do is cut and paste a right wing screed and is totally incapable of any independent thought. Furthermore, I contend that the OP hasn't read any book worth any serious thought as well otherwise he'd know that "BRAKE[sic]" in this context would be spelt "BREAK".

Can I just put a rolling eyes face in my subject line?

This is NOT a bill to have government-run health care. That is precisely the PROBLEM with the health care bill. The private sector has had the last 30 years to get this right, and it has failed. Don't think so? Then why do the majority of Americans STILL favor a public option?

As for your list, it's stupid. The USPS works pretty fucking well. No private sector business can deliver that fast for that cheap.

Social Security was and IS the most successful gov't program in our history. Without it, 50% of our senior citizens would live in abject poverty. To date, it is the ONLY gov't program that's in the black. Not only does it protect seniors, but it protects all American citizens. If anyone is hurt or becomes disabled and can no longer work, then SS will provide an income.

Fannie Mae worked just great until the Johnson administration privatized it. I'm not surprised it's broke.

Without the war on poverty Condi Rice would be a crackhead and Colon Powell would be homeless. The only reason it failed is because the program was ABANDONED. At least 1 trillion dollars was put to good use. The Pentagon on the other hand, LOST a trillion dollars.

Medicare and Medicaid is broke because BUSH broke it with Part D. If we got private industry out of the disease industry (there is no health care in this country), then Medicare would be just fine. And if not...then we could tax rich people at the same rate that everyone else is taxed for FICA.

What this demonstrates is not that government doesn't work, it demonstrates that Republicans break government when they run it.

But somehow nobody mentions just how successful other gov't programs have been. Like rural electrication. Private industry refused to spend the money to put electric lines up in rural areas. So gov't did it instead. We have the exact same issue today with the internet. Do you have FIOS in your neighborhood yet? I don't. But a friend who lives 4 minutes away does. Isn't the private sector so efficient?

Somehow nobody ever mentions our interstate highway system. We take it for granted, but I can get in a car and drive to all 48 continental states with no problem. And if you break down, the government department of transportation will come help you out. Try that in Costa Rica sometime.

And then there's always the wonderful private sector. The same one that produces health care in this country that kills 18,000 a year by not providing it. The same industry that is the number one cause of bankrupcy in this country. Then there's our wonderful private banks. The same ones that gambled with your money and led to the housing bubble and bust, and then who did they come begging to, hat in hand, to be bailed out? The government. Notice gov't didn't go to private business to be bailed out. So who's better?

I could go on, so I will. There's always the lovely private auto companies that produced a shit ton of SUVs, which made us more dependent on foreign oil. Thanks to them we all have to pay higher gas prices now.

There's the private music industry, which is so shitty that it's managed to loose money when more people than ever are listening to music. And where are all those great performers who will be bringing in money for the labels for decades to come? They hadn't bothered to sign any. Instead we get wonderful "long term investments" like Britney Spears.

Then there's the private telecommunications industry, which pisses off their customers so much that telecommunication companies are the number one complaint from citizens that local attorney generals hear about. Understandable, considering the tech guy is located in India and you can't understand him.

Then there's the wonderful private energy industry. Which somehow can't manage a way to keep producing oil without a trillion dollar subsidy from THE GOVERNMENT to secure it's oil in Iraq.

And then there's the wonderful private team sport industry. The players make millions, they're all on steroids, and yet the private owners can't seem to build a single stadium without the government paying for it. If fact, no major league sport in this country pulls a single dollar of profit without tax payer's dollars.

In private industry after private industry, we see nothing but failure. From the World Coms to the Enron's, to Tyco's to AIG. All of it a just piece of shit failure, and all of it depends on GOVERNMENT to pick up the costs it can't handle.

And just like Ford and GM would never make a dollar in profit without taxpayers stepping up to the plate and building a road to use their product on. Whether it's establishing a stable currency to do business with, or using our courts to enforce their contracts, or a million other things, not a single business in this country could survive without some kind of government handout.

And you have the gull to say government doesn't work? Jesus, we just went through 8 years of Numnuts taking a claw hammer to it, and doubling it's debt while engaged in two wars across the globe. And yet your mail still gets delivered, you still have water on tap, your schools are still open, and your trash is still picked up.

Government doesn't work? Holy fucking Jesus what a stupid thing to say. Here's an idea. Ethopia hasn't had a functioning government since 1991. Go move there, and come back and tell us what paradise is like. It should be informative as hell. I'll buy you the plane ticket.

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