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Amusing--maybe better suited for OT-Fun?
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Wed, 21 Apr 2004 12:54:39 GMT
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From The Onion, of course:
Libertarian Reluctantly Calls Fire Department
CHEYENNE, WY—After attempting to contain a living-room blaze started by a
cigarette, card-carrying Libertarian Trent Jacobs reluctantly called the
Cheyenne Fire Department Monday. “Although the community would do better to
rely on an efficient, free-market fire-fighting service,
the fact is that
expensive, unnecessary public fire departments do exist,” Jacobs said. “Also,
my house was burning down.” Jacobs did not offer to pay firefighters for
their service.
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| (...) I'm not getting the joke. :-) I use government services reluctantly but if I *paid* for them already (willingly or not) and there aren't any alternatives (usually because bad money drives out good, or because the government forces a monopoly) (...) (20 years ago, 22-Apr-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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