On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 09:04:23 -0800 (PST), Tim
wrote:

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Having the streets plowed by the local government so you can get to
work, the grocery store, to a doctor's appointment or to school, as
examples, is certainly government at the point of a gun. So, if you
lived up north, you'd be out there as a libertarian, insisting the local
government not plow the road in front of your house, eh? Would you have
your trusty sidearm on your hip?
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Nuts with the local government plowing streets. We do that a lot ourselves. That's why farmers around here have tractors with blades on them. Sometimes waiting on the township crew can be frustrating. Off and on I spent two days plowing here last year...

Harry seems to forget, it doesn't snow here but that did not stop him
from interjecting me into his rant.

.... and no FEMA has never done a thing to help us here after a half
dozen hurricanes. Two were serious. (Charley and Wilma)
The only help we got from local government was horticulture removal,
after I cut it up and piled it on the curb (once after Charley)
We pay for that as part of our solid waste removal assessment on our
taxes.

On 11/23/15 2:16 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 09:04:23 -0800 (PST), Tim
wrote:

- show quoted text -
Having the streets plowed by the local government so you can get to
work, the grocery store, to a doctor's appointment or to school, as
examples, is certainly government at the point of a gun. So, if you
lived up north, you'd be out there as a libertarian, insisting the local
government not plow the road in front of your house, eh? Would you have
your trusty sidearm on your hip?
-------
Nuts with the local government plowing streets. We do that a lot ourselves. That's why farmers around here have tractors with blades on them. Sometimes waiting on the township crew can be frustrating. Off and on I spent two days plowing here last year...

Harry seems to forget, it doesn't snow here but that did not stop him
from interjecting me into his rant.

... and no FEMA has never done a thing to help us here after a half
dozen hurricanes. Two were serious. (Charley and Wilma)
The only help we got from local government was horticulture removal,
after I cut it up and piled it on the curb (once after Charley)
We pay for that as part of our solid waste removal assessment on our
taxes.



If memory serves, the original post in this thread was about sledding in
Michigan, where the local government plowed the streets.

As for FEMA, perhaps the agency found out you were all rugged
libertarian individualists who neither wanted nor would accept any
assistance from the nasty government.