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Old 09-18-2009, 01:27 PM
 
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I am a conservative. I am against any form of Government Healthcare Option & would also like the Government to stay out of my life.

This morning I was awoken by my alarm clock powered by electricity generated by the public power monopoly regulated by the U.S. Department of Energy.

I then took a shower in the clean water provided by a 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 like, using satellites designed, built, and launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

I watched this while eating my breakfast of U.S. Department of Agriculture-inspected food and taking the drugs which have been determined as safe by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

At the appropriate time, as regulated by the U.S. Congress and kept accurate by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the U.S. Naval Observatory, I get into my National Highway Traffic Safety Administration-approved automobile and set out to work on the roads build 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 issued by the Federal Reserve Bank.

On the way out the door I deposit any mail I have to be sent out via the U.S. Postal Service and drop the kids off at the public school.

After spending another day not being maimed or killed at work thanks to the workplace regulations imposed by the Department of Labor and the Occupational Safety and Health administration, enjoying another two meals which again do not kill me because of the USDA, I drive my NHTSA car back home on the DOT roads, to my house which has not burned down in my absence because of the state and local building codes and Fire Marshal's inspection, and which has not been plundered of all its
valuables thanks to the local police department.

And then I log on to the internet -- which was developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration -- and post on Freerepublic.com and Fox News forums about how SOCIALISM in medicine is BAD because the government can't do anything right.

-Originally Posted by Digg user "UniversalGuy".
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Old 09-18-2009, 01:33 PM
 
Location: New Jersey
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I am a conservative. I am against any form of Government Healthcare Option & would also like the Government to stay out of my life.

This morning I was awoken by my alarm clock powered by electricity generated by the public power monopoly regulated by the U.S. Department of Energy.

I then took a shower in the clean water provided by a 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 like, using satellites designed, built, and launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

I watched this while eating my breakfast of U.S. Department of Agriculture-inspected food and taking the drugs which have been determined as safe by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

At the appropriate time, as regulated by the U.S. Congress and kept accurate by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the U.S. Naval Observatory, I get into my National Highway Traffic Safety Administration-approved automobile and set out to work on the roads build 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 issued by the Federal Reserve Bank.

On the way out the door I deposit any mail I have to be sent out via the U.S. Postal Service and drop the kids off at the public school.

After spending another day not being maimed or killed at work thanks to the workplace regulations imposed by the Department of Labor and the Occupational Safety and Health administration, enjoying another two meals which again do not kill me because of the USDA, I drive my NHTSA car back home on the DOT roads, to my house which has not burned down in my absence because of the state and local building codes and Fire Marshal's inspection, and which has not been plundered of all its
valuables thanks to the local police department.

And then I log on to the internet -- which was developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration -- and post on Freerepublic.com and Fox News forums about how SOCIALISM in medicine is BAD because the government can't do anything right.

-Originally Posted by Digg user "UniversalGuy".
you are all over the place on this. You are mixing local and federal governments into one entity. Also, most of those government entities that you mentioned only create regulation, they don't actually do the work.
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Old 09-18-2009, 01:37 PM
 
Location: Chicagoland
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I am a conservative.
Hogwash.
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Old 09-18-2009, 01:41 PM
 
Location: By the sea, by the sea, by the beautiful sea
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Hogwash.

WOW! You're finally catching on! Hogwash is exactly what most NeoConfuseds spout!
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Old 09-18-2009, 01:44 PM
 
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Hogwash.
You have rendered me speechless by the intellectual depth of your argument
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Old 09-18-2009, 01:47 PM
 
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I am a conservative.
I realize the OP may not do any independent research and thinks everyone accepts things on face value, but a quick search destroys the OP's credibility.

Here is a post from the conversative OP on 3/9/09:

"Its mostly the religious-right that just cant accept that the country doesnt belong to their nutty selves anymore.

"OMG, Obama is the anti-christ! OMG, we're all doomed!!" And so on.

I really dont know what to tell you guys. You had the country for 8 years & practically flushed it down the toilet. Move aside now. Go hide in a bunker with your bibles & pray for us all I guess."
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Old 09-18-2009, 01:50 PM
 
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Hogwash.

I agree. Most liberals are so far out of touch they label themselves as moderates but I'll repeat your own thoughts:

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Old 09-18-2009, 01:53 PM
 
Location: Here
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-Originally Posted by Digg user "UniversalGuy".
Just a reminder.
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Old 09-18-2009, 01:54 PM
 
Location: Chicagoland
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You have rendered me speechless by the intellectual depth of your argument
If the premise is defective (whoever wrote that is a conservative), how can the content or conclusion be accurate?
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Old 09-18-2009, 01:54 PM
 
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If government forced you to buy the alarm clock from their store while at the same time making you pay for your neighbor's clock then you might have an analogy.
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