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Nonsense. Dont you fly on planes? I like having federally funded air traffic controllers. Dont you drive on roads? I think the feds did a good job with the interstate system (though it is now falling apart from lack of funds to maintain it) Dont you like having a military? Dont you like having a Center for Disease Control to deal with epidemics? And the list goes on. You really shouldnt make such blanket statements.

I argued these very points from your view point one time with a liberterian about twenty years ago. I pointed out big projects like roads and hydro electric dams as jobs just too big for private industry. He pointed out that if the government had not gotten into the road and dam business it's likely that the landscape would be very different today, but their would be some form of transportation and power infrastructure built and sold by private industry that would ulitmately be more efficient than we have now, because the consumer would want to get the most bang for its buck. The truth of his arguments became evident to me.