THe Argument goes the Government can't run anything. Well, This morning I was awoken by my alarm clock powered by electricity generated by the public power monopoly 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 like using satellites designed, built, and launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. I watched this while eating my breakfast of food inspected by the US Department of Agriculture and taking the drugs which have been determined as safe by the Food and Drug Administration.
I do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else.
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)
At the appropriate time as regulated by the US Congress and kept accurate by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the US Naval Observatory, I got 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, 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 deposited the mail I needed to send out via the US Postal Service and dropped the kids off at the public school.
After spending another day of 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, I enjoyed another two meals which again did not kill me because of the USDA. I drove my NHTSA car back home on the DOT roads, to my house which had not burned down during my absence because of the state and local building codes and Fire Marshal's inspection, and which had not been plundered of all its valuables thanks to the local Police Department.
I then logged on to the Internet which was developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration and found someone had posted on Yahoo! Answers how SOCIALISM in medicine is BAD because the government can't do anything right.
THOUGHTS??
One point in my public life: I did all I could for the reform of the civil service, for the building up of the South, for a sound currency, etc., etc., but I never forgot my party.... I knew that all good measures would suffer if my administration was followed by the defeat of my party. Result, a great victory in 1880. Executive and legislature both completely Republican.
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
Seems some didn't even bother to read the post.too bad.it's full of facts.
*sigh*.