Government Intervention isn’t ALL Bad.

It’s been interesting to hear that there is a segment of people who believe that no good can come out of government involvement in our daily lives. I have to laugh (and roll my eyes in disbelief) because these are the same folks who seem to feel that the government has no role in our daily lives today, and to them, I submit this wonderful story below, that was provided to me on Facebook by an unknown author:

This morning I awoke to the sound of my alarm clock powered by electricity generated by the Public Power Monopoly regulated by the US
department of energy. I then took a shower in the clean water provided by the municipal water utility. After that, I turned on the TV to one of the FCC regulated channels to see what the Weather Service of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration determined the weather would be like today using satellites designed, built and launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. I did this while eating my breakfast of US Department of Agriculture inspected food and taking drugs determined safe by the Federal Drug Administration.

At a time that has been kept accurate by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the US Naval Observatory, I got into my National Highway Traffic Safety Administration approved automobile and set out to work on roads built and maintained by local, state and federal departments of transportation. I checked my mail delivered by the US Postal Service and dropped the kids of at public school, then stopped for fuel of a quality regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency.

After work I drove my NHTSA car on DOT roads back home, which has not burned down because of state and local building codes and a fire
marshal’s inspection. My house has not been plundered in my absence because of the local police department.

I then log onto the internet which was developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration and post here about how socialized health care is bad because the government can’t do anything right.

And while we’re here, the “hey government, stay out of my Medicare” sign is…well…stupid.

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