What government programs have you benefited from?

[chanel]

Clean water, law enforcement, safe drugs and public education are not entitlements. A better question would be "what hand outs have you enjoyed that your neighbors have not (but paid for) ?" As for my fanily - parents, brothers. In laws, kids -. zero.

 

[code1211]

I recall one or two libertarians...or conservatives (one won't admit to being either one) admitting they took government subsidized student loans, admitting they got back more tax money than they paid in, admitted that as kids they lived off of disability social security from a parents death, admitted they got free lunch because they qualified for it...and various other benefits and it got me wondering.

What government programs have you benefited from?

Here's my list, as far as I recall.

6 years of public school.
Clean water.
Uncontaminated food.
4 years publicly funded school buses.
Military protection.
Clear roads.
$250 from FEMA for hurricane damage.
Federally underwritten flood insurance.4 years of publicly funded school for each of two kids.
1 year of bus services for 1 kid.
Scholarship for 1 kid underwritten by the state.

The highlighted items are ones that seem unusual to me. The rest is the result of minimum performance of a supported infastructure.

For me, I attended a state college with tuition subsidized by taxpayers. As repayment, I and the rest of the student body combined to support athletic teams that made the upper division of the Big Ten possible.

However, following graduation, I've more than paid back anything that I recieved in benefits with the taxes paid. All in all, it's worth it. I don't think there are many that would choose to be less than they could be. Some have missed the turn that would take them there and others never got close to the road they needed.

Some are culturally encouraged to fail or rebel. Some are held down or distracted by circumstance. Some lost out early by not learning to read, as an example, or making one disastrous decision that changed all that followed. Some won early by equally unlikely good fortune.

Most of us go with the flow and if we're lucky, can affect our course at critical moments.

 

[manu1959]

now that i think of it i was a benificary of the minority quota system of the uc system.....some minority with bad grades got into cal and i didn't despite my good grades and test scores cuz i was white....

 

[☭proletarian☭]

I recall one or two libertarians...or conservatives (one won't admit to being either one) admitting they took government subsidized student loans, admitting they got back more tax money than they paid in, admitted that as kids they lived off of disability social security from a parents death, admitted they got free lunch because they qualified for it...and various other benefits and it got me wondering.

What government programs have you benefited from?

Here's my list, as far as I recall.

6 years of public school.
Clean water.
Uncontaminated food.
4 years publicly funded school buses.
Military protection.
Clear roads.
$250 from FEMA for hurricane damage.
Federally underwritten flood insurance.
4 years of publicly funded school for each of two kids.
1 year of bus services for 1 kid.
Scholarship for 1 kid underwritten by the state.

if you got to keep all your tax dollars could you have paid for all that yourself.....

She could have hired a military, built a sewage treatment plant, hired a few teachers, and loaned herself money for school?

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[☭proletarian☭]

Are you assuming that a private water company would sell you dirty water?

If they're anything like the meat companies.

Shall I tell you the story of the muckrake?

 

[☭proletarian☭]

what do we need military protection from.....

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[Dis]

if you got to keep all your tax dollars could you have paid for all that yourself.....

Military protection? Clean water? Clear roads?

Doubtful.

Why don't you tell us what you've benefited from.

what do we need military protection from.....you can make your own clean water.....we had clear roads before taxes....

other than city infrastructure not much that i can think of....i am a rich white dude that is a "partner" in a corportation....i pay for other peoples shit....

Make that "rich skinny lil white dude"...

 

[manu1959]

Military protection? Clean water? Clear roads?

Doubtful.

Why don't you tell us what you've benefited from.

what do we need military protection from.....you can make your own clean water.....we had clear roads before taxes....

other than city infrastructure not much that i can think of....i am a rich white dude that is a "partner" in a corportation....i pay for other peoples shit....

Make that "rich skinny lil white dude"...

lol.....6-2 220......

 

[Immanuel]

I recall one or two libertarians...or conservatives (one won't admit to being either one) admitting they took government subsidized student loans, admitting they got back more tax money than they paid in, admitted that as kids they lived off of disability social security from a parents death, admitted they got free lunch because they qualified for it...and various other benefits and it got me wondering.

What government programs have you benefited from?

Here's my list, as far as I recall.

6 years of public school.
Clean water.
Uncontaminated food.
4 years publicly funded school buses.
Military protection.
Clear roads.
$250 from FEMA for hurricane damage.
Federally underwritten flood insurance.
4 years of publicly funded school for each of two kids.
1 year of bus services for 1 kid.
Scholarship for 1 kid underwritten by the state.

I don't understand what you are trying to get at.

I feel I have strong libertarian leanings. Mostly because I find myself at odds with both the extreme liberal and extreme conservative leanings. I don't believe that there should be no government or no government programs. I think our government should do what is necessary to assist as many citizens as possible. I do not believe that our government should do everything possible to "even the playing field" for everyone. We should be providing Welfare benefits to the poor. We should be providing health services to the poor albeit I don't like the idea of a governmental monopoly.

So, anyway, I am just not sure what you are trying to insinuate here.

I could not even begin to count the ways that my government has helped me.

I would not even want to try.

I don't want the government to disappear. I simply don't want it to interfere too much.

Immie

 

[Luissa]

taxpayers

And you have a problem funding research that may cure a disease you might get one day?

and you're convinced that the government knows how best to fund research ?

Do you realize cures are discovered quite a bit of the time when researching something else? I think it should be left up to the scienctist to figure out what is best funded.

 

[☭proletarian☭]

Retard 1(Dude):: GUBMINT IST BAD! ALL GUBMINT IST BAD! ONLY RICH FOLKS SHOULD HAVE SKOOL AND CLEAN WATER!! NAZICOMMUNISTHIPPIESOCIALISTDEMOCRAT!!!!

Retard 2::Government is God. It can manage everything better than the private sector or corporation$. Surrender to the Staat.


All of you whoss posts resemble either of the above should kill yourselves.

Government is a necessity. There are certain things only the Fed can coordinate, there are certain things the States can best manage, and there are some things the government should stay the fuck out of. All of you extremist partisan hacks are fucking morons.

 

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Sorry, does being called on your hackery make you feel as stupid as you look?

 

[dilloduck]

And you have a problem funding research that may cure a disease you might get one day?

and you're convinced that the government knows how best to fund research ?

Do you realize cures are discovered quite a bit of the time when researching something else? I think it should be left up to the scienctist to figure out what is best funded.

a liberal scientist I assume

 

[Luissa]

and you're convinced that the government knows how best to fund research ?

Do you realize cures are discovered quite a bit of the time when researching something else? I think it should be left up to the scienctist to figure out what is best funded.

a liberal scientist I assume

I don't care what their political beliefs is, and I don't care if they study something like how religion effects your happiness. They could figure something else out in the process.

 

[Oddball]

Sorry, does being called on your hackery make you feel as stupid as you look?

Does being called a the lying sock puppet asshole you are make you feel as stupid as you are?

My guess is no....That'd require a conscience.

 

[dilloduck]

Do you realize cures are discovered quite a bit of the time when researching something else? I think it should be left up to the scienctist to figure out what is best funded.

a liberal scientist I assume

I don't care what their political beliefs is, and I don't care if they study something like how religion effects your happiness. They could figure something else out in the process.

and who should pay this "scientist" to grow stuff in his petrie dishes?

 

[Modbert]

The Government has helped plenty of people and everyone has benefited from it from one time or another. However, nobody is saying you should just give yourself to the Government. The Government does plenty of things that you yourself cannot do.

 

[dilloduck]

The Government has helped plenty of people and everyone has benefited from it from one time or another. However, nobody is saying you should just give yourself to the Government. The Government does plenty of things that you yourself cannot do.

as do corporations

 

[Oddball]

The Government does plenty of things that you yourself cannot do.

Just ask David Koresh.

 

[Modbert]

Sorry, does being called on your hackery make you feel as stupid as you look?

Does being called a the lying sock puppet asshole you are make you feel as stupid as you are?

My guess is no....That'd require a conscience.

Editing posts is against the rules now.