If it weren't for SOCIALISM wouldn't most rural Conservatives be living like Ted Kaczynski?
Well, except for hitching with the mailman... USPS is SOCIALISM too!!!!!"Lived in a 10-by-12-foot ramshackle cabin he'd built himself with no electricity or running water. Mostly unemployed, surviving on a few hundred dollars a year, chopped wood for heat, hunted deer, food from his garden and cans of Spam and tuna. Rode a bike for transportation, sometimes dressed in overalls and a straw hat; in the winter used chains on his bicycle tires for traction or hitched a ride with a mail truck."http://www.francesfarmersrevenge.com/stuff/unabomber/ted.htm"Inside the Unabomber's Cabin"http://www.npr.org/programs/totn/features/2008/06/unabomber_gallery/index.html"We've Line Ewg got rural post offices out there that we'll spend $10 in costs for every $1 we take in in revenue..."http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/01/05/pm-usps/"Well into the 20th century, calling them "roads" gives them more credit than they deserve. They were often little more than trails that were muddy in the rain and dusty the rest of the time. Any long trip by automobile required not only time, patience, and ingenuity, but tire-patching equipment, tools, spare parts, and emergency food and fuel..."http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/rw96a.cfm"In the 1930s, nearly 90 percent of urban dwellers had electricity, compared to only 10 percent of rural dwellers. Private utility companies, which supplied electric power to most of the nation's consumers, argued that it was too expensive to string electric lines to isolated rural farmsteads. In addition, they argued that most farmers were too poor to afford electricity.Rural electrification was based on the belief that affordable electricity would improve the standard of living and the economic competitiveness of the family farm. The Roosevelt Administration believed that if private enterprise could not supply electric power to the people, then it was the duty of the government to do it..."http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1653.html"Taxpayers sent $13.4 billion in farm subsidies to more than 1.4 million recipients in 2006.."http://farm.ewg.org/farm/summary.php
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