Originally Posted by MexicanWarlord420

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 medicineman

Originally Posted by medicineman

Originally Posted by hom36rown

Let's see....no need for public utilities, private corporations could do the exact same thing more efficiently. We Really don't need the FCC, and we dont need the NWS to forecast the weather. We don't need the Department of Agriculture, and they did not actually inspect your food. The FDA is nice I suppose, but there could just as easily be free market alternatives. We don't need the FED, we'd be better off without them, we wouldnt be in this crisis if it wern't for them. The post office records billions in red ink every year, while UPS and fedex turn a profit.
I seriously doubt that you would have been maimed or anything without OSHA standards, and if you thought you're job was unsafe, or your employer was not taking proper safety precautions, you are always free to find a new job.
We do need roads, police, fire department...but the rest we'd be better off without.

Originally Posted by MexicanWarlord420

Here's just a small list of socialist agencies that is destroying this great nation.

http://www.madatoms.com/site/blog/so...roying-america

WE WANT OUR COUNTRY BACK!

Originally Posted by doobnVA

The USDA doesn't inspect food? Since when?

http://www.fsis.usda.gov/

USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service




Jesus.. do you actually KNOW anything, or do you just THINK you know everything?


Are you honestly advocating FREE MARKET drug inspection companies? UH, I don't know about you but I don't trust a PROFIT seeking industry to accurately determine the safety of a potentially deadly substance. Would you feel comfortable taking a nitroglycerin pill inspected for "safety" by the friendly folks at Wal Mart? Think about what you're saying for once, before letting things simply fall out of your mouth. Public utilities run by a bunch of greedy corporate pirates? Really? You think that would be a good idea? How's it working with health insurance premiums, huh? Oh, they're rising faster than wages, you say? Interesting....golly, gee... I wonder why that's happening?

Originally Posted by hom36rown

Well I guess they "inspect" food, in that they inspect farms, factories etc. I suppose I mean to say test food. What percent of food do you think they actually inspect for things like salmonella, E. Coli, etc...

As for free market drug inspection, I'm all for it. Private companies are more accountable than the federal government. Like you said, They are out to make a profit. Approving and releasing dangerous drugs into the market isn't going to make you a profit if your hit with a billion dollar class-action. The FDA makes it harder to sue drug companies. I'm not talking about wal-mart doing drug testing...obviously drug testing would be a whole separate industry silly. Competition will make drug testing more efficient. Currently life-saving drugs have to go through an expensive, inefficient process before they can be released. The FDA kills people.

And healthcare is so expensive thanks to Medicare/medicaid, and excessive regulation.

Why so hostile?