My internet/cable has been out all day--a general outage, I'm told.
I'm fine with this, because it was a free-enterprise outage. Had my cable/internet service been a government-run service, I would have really been steamed, because, well, that's government for you. Government just isn't a problem; government is the problem.
Now it's true that the Post Office, that notorious offspring of incompetent GovThink, processes more than a half-billion pieces of mail each day, some of them mine. And it's also true that, for years, the Post Office has never lost or destroyed so much as one piece of my mail, which still costs less than a half-buck to send from where I am to a couple hundred or even a couple thousand miles away. This realization always makes me happy--until I recall that government or any government-related operation is the problem, our worst problem, a monstrously tyrannical problem.
So I've missed nearly one full day of free-enterprise cable/internet. So what? Its costly absence was a virtuous absence. So. No problem.
I can send a letter from my house to Alaska for 50 cents. I would not be able to find a 12 year old to carry it across the street for 50 cents - the little socialist bastards. :-)
Posted by: Robert Lipscomb | June 23, 2012 at 08:37 AM
The idea that government is evil seems to resonate quite nicely with everyone doesn't it? Unfortunately as much on the left as on the right. It's become quite my personal mission to make fun of such people on the left (mostly because I like them) who tear off a rant every time a government regulatory body makes a scientifically based policy decision that is at odds with whatever nonsense is being spouted on the internet but which they are sure is the truth. Governments may make mistakes and individuals within in it may have venal motives but the alternative is what exactly?
Posted by: Peter G | June 23, 2012 at 09:19 AM
It's been my experience with free enterprise i.e. cable/internet companies and the like...outages, disruptions will soon be followed by an increase on my bill. Of course if it was government entity it would be a tax...OMG!
Posted by: SueMe | June 23, 2012 at 10:45 AM
Sadly, the anti-government programming has becoming nearly as deeply rooted in the Left as it is in the Right. The very people who are advocating for more government involvement in health care are the very same ones who rail about how government can't be trusted to do anything right because they are in the pocket of big business.
We are down the rabbit-hole folks.
Posted by: Chris Andersen | June 24, 2012 at 01:22 AM