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[email protected] · September 21st 06, 05:57 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.policy

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KØHB wrote:
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Yes - they were all subsidized by the taxpayers.

Insulting bull****! Members of the Armed Forces do not receive a
"subsidy" --- they receive pay for their service.

I'm sorry if you were insulted, Hans - that was not my intent.

Tsk, you were trying to insult me, not Hans.

No real problem to me since I know your kind of "my body is
too precious to waste serving my country" #######.

shrug Takes all kinds. :-(

My point was simply that certain people and industries are paid by the
government rather than the free market. The government decides that
something needs to be done for the public good, and that user fees
can't pay for it, so taxpayer money pays for it.

Rationalization and trying to weasel out of what you insultingly
wrote.

That covers a lot more than members of the Armed Forces - there are
firemen, law enforcement officers, public education teachers and
administrators, all manner of public works people, etc. There are also
many private companies that would not exist, or would be much smaller,
if the government did not buy their products and services.

More rationalization. You were not in law enforcement or other
public safety service.

You DO play the angry Mother Superior in here, though...you must
think that counts?

For example, when Hoover Dam was built in the 1930s, the government
used taxpayer money to pay the contractors that built the dam. Private
industry could not do the job alone - the cost was too high and the
short-term return on investment too low.

The USA was not at war with Lake Mead. Neither were the waters
threatening anyone in eastern Pennsylvania.

Is it "insulting bull****" to say that that part of the country had its
development subsidized by the government when Hoover Dam was built? If
so, how should it be described?

What IS insulting bull**** is your elitist NON-SERVING crap
about members of the armed forces of the United States being
"subsidized" by taxpayers.

Now check out your "people skills" by going into the nearest
military base or VFW hall or a military recruiting station and
repeat your "insulting bull****" to the veterans there.

ex-RA16408336, Sgt., SigC, United States Army 1952-1960