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Below is an e-mail written by a young man named Liam Kerr and forwarded me to me by long-time Plymouth activist Ted Curtin. I think it should be required reading for all those who, because of ignorance, selfishness or ingratitude, disparage the role of government in civil society.
This morning I was awakened by my alarm clock powered by electricity generated by the public power monopoly and regulated by the US Department of Energy. I then took a shower in the clean water provided by the 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 using satellites designed, built, and launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. I watched this while eating my breakfast of US Department of Agriculture inspected food and taking drugs determined to be safe by the Food and Drug Administration.
Before the work day starts, as regulated by the US Congress and kept accurate by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the US Naval Observatory, I get into my National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration approved automobile and set out to work on the roads built 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 issues by the Federal Reserve Bank). On the way out the door, I deposit mail to be sent via the US Postal Service and drop the kids off at the local public school.
After work, I drive my NHSTA car back home on the DOT roads, to the house which has not burned down in my absence because of state and local building codes and fire marshal's inspection, and which has not been plundered thanks to the local police
department.
I then log onto the Internet developed by the Defense Research Projects Administration and post to Fox News forums about how "socialism" in medicine is bad because the government can't do anything right.
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