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Re: Amusing--maybe better suited for OT-Fun?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 22 Apr 2004 00:35:49 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote:
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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) why wouldn’t I use
them?
The writer neglects to mention that the original organized fire fighting
services were in fact free market ones.
But go ahead and snicker all you want. If you think this snippet is actually
funny, then the joke is on you for being brainwashed, I guess. Or for the
company you keep among the snickerers...
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| From (URL) 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 (...) (20 years ago, 21-Apr-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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