[TheForge] OT - Snow in NJ

[Andrew Vida]

peter fels & phoebe palmer wrote:
> The nationwide reality is that voters are not willing to pay taxes,  to 
> fund services, that they demand.

NOthing wrong with not wanting to pay taxes.  Wanting something for 
nothing - that is a horse of a different feather altogether and that 
seems to be a primary problem with so many people.

> Part of that is resentment at the inefficiency of established bureaucracies.

	Who rarely, if ever, get things right.

> And part of that is unwillingness to tax ourselves to have equipment and 
> personnel

	Privatize it.


> Other industrialized nations have much higher tax rates and get better 
> services than us...mostly.
	
	Utter nonsense Peter.  For example, look at Europe, haven of socialist 
degeneracy.  How many airports were just shut down because of a snow 
storm?  Some are STILL closed a week later.  Bibi just made it out of 
Brussels by the skin of her skin - sat on teh tarmac 2.5 hours because 
they didn't have enough equipment and personnel to keep the runways 
cleared.  And the attitude of the airport personnel was "fuck 'em, we're 
going home for vacation".  I was talking with my father yesterday, he 
retired back to Europe, and says the great socialist experiment is an 
utter, monumental, catastrophic study in FAIL.  No services, no 
attitudes, no nothing.  Across that highly taxed continent, FAIL is 
rising everywhere.  As fooked as the USA is, we are still a billion 
miles better than any place in Europe, save perhaps Switzerland, which 
is the one nation that has not bought into the socialist agenda.  Funny, 
that.

> Besides, NJ is all the way on the other side of the continent,
> And their attitude is even worse than ours...grin.

	That's like arguing over which corpse is more dead.