counterpoint/devil's adv.
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Originally Posted by Spexxvet
If you want protection, use your gun or get a dog.
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911 is a joke in many locations. You must take steps to protect yourself, period. It is part of your responsibility as a citizen.
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If you have a dispute with your employer, neighbor, grocer, handle it yourself.
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This is great advice and I'm not sure why even the biggest of big gov advocate would suggest that neighborly disputes should be handled by government.
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If you have 3 kids in school, send them to a private school and pay 3+ times what it would cost in public school
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Actually public schooling, per child, is usually about twice the cost of private schooling. In Pennsylvania this became so embarrassing that the legislature once ordered the reported numbers of per-child spending to be cut by a third using accounting methods.
This also means that, if you are a fan of public schools, you should be very happy with the people who decide not to use them. They don't cut the budget just because Timmy doesn't show up. The rest of the pupils get that dough and a better teacher-student ratio.
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or home school them, and lose an income and your kids can be educated by an amateur.
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In a teacher-student ratio of as little as 1:1. That turns out to work well:
...homeschoolers, on the average, out-performed their counterparts in the public schools by 30 to 37 percentile points in all subjects. A significant finding when analyzing the data for 8th graders was the evidence that homeschoolers who are homeschooled two or more years score substantially higher than students who have been homeschooled one year or less. source
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If fracking poisons your drinking water, move.
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And if global warming produced by coal and oil affects your planet, and you can't switch to a less dangerous fuel, move to Mars.
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[if] toxic waste is spilled on your property,
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Sue. Li'l government advocates say handling such matters as property disputes is a more reliable way to prevent pollution. Of course the biggest polluters on the planet have always been in big-gov lands. When Poland was Communist the rivers were the worst in the world. Now, of all nations, China is the biggest polluter because the government is making the decisions. And the biggest polluter in the world? Not a corporation, it's the government of the USA, Department of Defense.
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Have fun. Imma move to Canada.
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I'm sure you meant China. The bigger government the better, right?