ribit,
re: "If ya expect the gubmint to help you out, you are in for a big disappointment."
Social Security. Libraries. Universities. Public schools. Highways. National parks. Safe vehicles. Tested medications.
I get things from the government every day, and so do you.
The fact that you know that you've paid way too much for what you're getting and that government is poorly run and contemptible, and that you PERHAPS believe as I do that we should have vastly less government in this country than we do . . . does not in any way lessen your moral right to accept government offerings to whatever extent is legal.
After all, you've paid for them.
Ron Paul was once criticized for voting to bring Federal money to his district. "Well of course," he said (and I'm paraphrasing.) "The spending was going to happen. I'm my district's representative. I have to try to bring what benefits of government I can back to the people I represent. They're taxpayers. They're entitled to get some of their money back."
So, that is what my earlier statement meant. Having been forced by government to hand over your money for a bunch of overpriced goods and services you might not have even wanted, you are as entitled as ANYONE to benefit from them.
There's no shame... or hypocrisy... in that, though it's an easy thing to forget. We're victimized when our money is taken against our will. There is no moral imperative to make martyrs out of ourselves too.
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