An open letter to teabaggers and others who hate our government

Saw this posted on Facebook the other day and thought I'd share it with you. It's made the rounds and actually is a little dated, so perhaps you've read it already, but it bears repeating, and it's pretty much spot on.

I AM AN AMERICAN ANTI-GOVERNMENT SHITHEEL

This morning I was awakened by my alarm clock powered by electricity generated by the public power monopoly regulated by the US Department of Energy. I then took a shower in the clean water provided by the municipal water utility. After that, I turned on the TV to one of the FCC regulated channels to see what the national weather service of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration determined the weather was going to be like using satellites designed, built, and launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. I watched this while eating my breakfast of US Department of Agriculture inspected food and taking the drugs which have been determined safe by the Food and Drug Administration.

At the appropriate time as regulated by the US Congress and kept accurate by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the US Naval Observatory, I got into my National Highway Traffic Safety Administration approved automobile and set out to work on the roads build by the local, state, and federal departments of transportation, possibly stopping to purchase additional fuel of a quality level determined by the Environmental Protection Agency, using legal tender issued by the Federal Reserve Bank. On the way out the door I deposited any mail I had to be sent out via the US Postal Service and dropped the kids off at the public school.

After spending another day not being maimed or killed at work thanks to the workplace regulations imposed by the Department of Labor and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, enjoying another two meals which again did not kill me because of the USDA, I drove my NHTSA car back home on the DOT roads, to my house which had not burned down in my absence because of the state and local building codes and fire marshal's inspection, and which had not been plundered of all its valuables, thanks to the local police department.

I then logged on to the internet, which was developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration and posted on freerepublic.com and Fox News forums about how SOCIALISM in medicine is BAD because the government can't do anything right.

The only reason government doesn't work is because conservative Republican administrations defunded and/or patronage staffed it with people with ties to special business interests --for example, the last FDA, Dept. of Interior and Agriculture under Bush. No one in the halls of modern "conservatism" seems to have had a problem with pumping over $500 Billion to the Defense Department, which last I hear is a socialized entity.

Just saying.

Really, I just want to throw this in the face of every smarmy little punk who rails against the supposed excesses of government. You don't even know what socialism really is.

You don't like government? Fine, then pave your own roads and put out your own fires and police your towns yourselves, assholes ....