> It's also really easy to see
>how life would be much harder for many people if we didn't have
>government (no schools, no public access to medical care at all,

What?????

I wrote an inflammatory reply, but fortunately for me, and everyone else,
I recovered my senses in time to delete it rather than posting it.

I think excercising such restraint, plus the fact that its friday, means I
ought to at least be able to call "BS!" give a really loud bronx cheer to
the above statement, and to comment that as much as I love the National
Parks and related lands, I would trade them in a minute if our government
would get the hell out of the education and medical business. Placing such
an important part of our well-being in the hands of an elite group of
millionaire lawyers and alchoholics has proven to be a fatal mistake.
Nothing good has ever come from any of their illegal, unauthorized
intrusions into those two fields, and nothing ever will.

<everything else snipped>

Happy Friday.

Mark