Liberals believe that a centralized government can take the place of the family. Government does nothing well but what it does worst of all is try to make up for the stuff mom and dad did not take the time to teach you.
This is utter, unmitigated bullshit.
Your government provides you with safe drinking water and keeps your food supply safe.
Your government provides you with roadways, street lighting, traffic signals.
It provides you with police protection.
It provides you with national forests and public parks... with regulations to ensure cleaner air, and it regulates industry to ensure you are covered in case of injury on the job...
It forces employers to pay you for overtime. And to treat you equally as any other employee.
It provides you with the computer you are sitting at- made possible entirely by government funded raw research into quantum physics over 50 years ago.
It provides you with an economy and with the internet.
And when your house catches fire... the people who come and put out the fire and pull your children from a burning house are government employees, using government equipment.
And when you are so old, no private insurer will cover you? It will be your government who pays for your care thru medicaid.
AND WHO has fucked up our economy? Not the defense department... private corporations like ENRON, FANNIE and FREDDIE, the Savings and Loan industry... HMO's ( who have made medical care 5 times as costly as 30 years ago) Private oil companies... who have driven up the cost of living across the board.
I wish to god you conservative dolts would read something other than O'rielly's bullet points.
You have ZERO evidence that govenrment does not do what it does well.
And ample evidence that it is private corporations, buying political influence, that keep fucking everything up.
In fact- the only way the government fails is when the conservatives fail to provide the government with revenue with which to work.
So , really... stop mouthing party platitudes and dogma. If you want to make such statements, then back them up with some damn evidence.
I am sick of conservative hatred for their own nation, their own government, and their fellow citizens.
PS- would you really want a fireman that worked for a profit oriented company?
One who assessed your 'coverage' before rendering aid?