Americans tends to overlook the fact that all of us benefit a great deal from our government’s programs. Few of us spend any time at all asking ourselves where capitalism ends and socialism begins, or vice versa.
Snow removal is a small piece of what we refer to as infrastructure, which is a huge element of what we all receive from government. Outside of toll roads, our taxes pay for our local roads, highways, bridges, tunnels, airports, etc.
But, let’s not ignore police, fire fighting, criminal justice, national defense, public education, labor laws, auto and food safety standards, air traffic control, TSA, libraries, emergency medical care, environmental regulation, social security, Medicare, the National Archives, national parks, bank regulations and deposit insurance, copyright and patent laws, federal dams to provide electrical power, flood control, the Weather Service, the Federal Housing Authority, consulates and embassies, FEMA, veterans affairs, public water systems, monitoring of all international cargo, NASA, border protection, and the National Institutes of Health.
I met a woman from Minneapolis this morning, appeared to be in her 70s, grandmother of six, who was in town for an annual family gathering. I mentioned that I thought it was a shame that such a productive, peace-loving and beautiful city as hers had been through such intense violence.
She replied that that ICE is essentially a terrorist organization. “They’ll grab some random protestor, throw him in a snowbank and publicly spit on him, just to show the crowd who’s in charge.”
Trump’s America.
“They’re gone now, but there’s no guarantee that they won’t come back,” she said.
One of the more bizarre aspects of life in America today is our government’s obsession with inserting itself into meaningless parts of our lives.
Why does the Pentagon have a list of religions it recognizes?
Who could possibly give a s*** as to which ones are on that list?
I’m happy to report that I don’t know a single person who would conclude, beyond a reasonable doubt, that “86 45” is a suggestion that Trump should be assassinated.
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