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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (8938)9/1/2009 9:27:35 PM
From: i-node  Read Replies (1) of 42652
 
Leave people to fight their own fires, [or hire a fire service to do it for them], but leave them alone to cut down all the trees they like on their own property. Road maintenance would be done by the road owners.

This is not far from the way it is where I live (in the county). We belong to a rural volunteer fire department co-op (the fire station is within 1 minute from our house) and if we want something fixed -- road, drainage, whatever -- we pay for it ourselves.

Just the way I like it. If only I could get government out of my pocketbook (unfortunately, even if you provide your own services, they keep collecting the taxes!).

RW tries to claim we all depend on government, and yes, I depend on it for national defense and certain other things government is the only possibility for. But you really cannot even count on them for THAT anymore (apparently, the Obama government thinks the best defense is an apology for being such a belligerent nation).
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