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To: presidio9
Do we want to live in a country without a legal system, without a military, without free education, without safety net programs.

No, No, Yes, Yes!

4 posted on 09/26/2003 8:21:35 AM PDT by Onelifetogive
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To: Onelifetogive
"Do we want to live in a country without a legal system, without a military, without free education, without safety net programs."..."No No, Yes, Yes! "

I don't think it is as cut and dried as a yes/no vote on these programs.

We need a legal system but the current one is extemely expensive, frustrating, not timely and effectively denies fair legal resource to the small guy. Not to mention that it frequently seems to overturn legislation without just cause. We need a legal system but there must be a way to improve it.

We need a military. Not just any military, but the world's best, smartest and most advanced.

Our founding fathers were very supportive of everyone in the nation being educated, one of the continental congress's first acts was to give free land for schools throughout the nation. It is in the nation's best interest to have all kids educated. That said, it's not in the best interest of the nation to have the schools go at the rate of the slowest student, learn an agenda that is anti-American and anti-Christian, and probably costs more than it should.

Safety Nets...I don't think we really want to go without some safety nets. The economy both in whole and regionally recovers much faster from stressors because of safety nets. Weve not had the kind of depressions like that of 1930 or the many during the 1800's that routinely wiped out hard working families, because of certain safety nets and certain restrictive regulations. But again the question is how much? How much are we willing to spend? How much abuse is allowed? How much should it cost to administer? How do we keep it from slowly creeping away our freedoms and our paycheck?

57 posted on 09/26/2003 1:11:25 PM PDT by DannyTN (Note left on my door by a pack of neighborhood dogs.)
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