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To: Elroy who wrote (154340)	1/14/2011 12:40:07 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 542126

I'm receiving service, just not checks - well not checks as in SS, etc. I am a teacher, so my salary- tiny as it is- comes from the state. But my husbands very large salary is not dependent upon the government- and goes to paying for a lot of stuff. Here are the services I like- education (preeschool and k- college), child welfare and protection, food inspection, worker protections, community medicine, assistance for the poor, retraining, roads, bridges and levees- and other infrastructure, public TV (I'd like to see more support for this- a la the UK), national parks workers, police, fire, DMV, mosquito abatement, pest abatement, infectious disease research (actually all the government labs- I'm for 'em all- I love big research). Yup, I'm pretty pleased with the fact that we don't have a lot of beggars- and the very poor aren't desperate enough to turn to kidnapping, or mayhem in the suburbs. I'd like socialized medicine, I think, because in general I've been happy when I've interfaced with the government. And my husband feels the same way.

To: Elroy who wrote (154340)	1/14/2011 12:49:31 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542126

Me, too. I get SS, Medicare, air traffic controllers, meat inspectors, a bookmobile, sheriff, Calfire, Highway 101, border guards, prison guards, accurate meters at the gas station, accurate scales at the Farmers Market, teachers for my granddaughters...and stuff. Plus the internet, pictures of weather from space, swine flu vaccines for them that wants, AIDs drugs for dem dat needs, safer hospitals and other workplaces, clean water, cleaner air, and somebody to plow snow off the roads when necessary. For that, I had to put up with paying for legions stationed in occupied Korea, black choppers filled with marijuana warriors, & subsidies for Big Oil. It's prolly a fair trade.