Goverment spending which makes you happy, but you rarley think about

[Winston]

Tax cuts.

[snoopy369]

Originally posted by Patroklos
My Salary.

$$$

I think about my salary regularly, don't know about you ...

[Lancer]

Defense

[Ecthy]

Originally posted by Lancer
Defense

[Patroklos]

I think about my salary regularly, don't know about you ...

I am cutting circles in the ocean months at a time. It is a genuine suprise to check my account in each port after three paydays of no spending

And since I know my finances are unlimited for all intents and purposes, I usually don't keep track of what I spend in each port either. Probobly should...

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by Winston
Tax cuts.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Cort Haus
Does local government count?

If so, refuse collections.

No, REFUSE such collections!


Those people are from the government, and you think they're there to HELP ?

Think how much more cost-effective it would be if Union Carbide or ntl or Enron or Railtrack collected your waste.

[Spiffor]

Hard to answer this question, as I think about most of those services, because I am a firm believer in public services, and I usually use them as examples to prove my points when doing political propaganda.

One of the points I don't think about too much is personal safety. It's better that we have cops than if we didn't have any. Now, if we could spare some money to actually teach our cops how to do their jobs properly (most young cops are unexperienced cowboys over here), that would be a good thing.

I also don't think too often about road and sewer maintenance, but it's fricking essential. While in Bamako, I've seen what it means when public spending doesn't fill this function.

[Tingkai]

Air safety regulations, unless you live in Taiwan or South Korea where the competition's selling point is they don't crash as often as the flag carriers.

[Cort Haus]

Originally posted by molly bloom
Think how much more cost-effective it would be if Union Carbide or ntl or Enron or Railtrack collected your waste.

I don't whether Onyx operates in your borough, but a friend of mine works for them in Hackney, and is also an active union official. From what I gather, the provision of services and conditions for staff are not any worse via this contractor than when the council ran the services themselves. If anything, I got the impression that some things have improved slightly.

The important thing is that the authorities still control the provision of these services, albeit using private contractors, and that's the way it should be.

When Kosovo was 'liberated' no-one collected any rubbish for months. OTOH, the free market moved extremely quickly in the markets of money-laundering gas stations, heroin, guns and sex slaves.

[mrmitchell]

firefighters and police

city parks

[Lorizael]

Originally posted by Spiffor
I also don't think too often about road and sewer maintenance, but it's fricking essential.

Whenever I cross the border from Maryland into Pennsylvania, I can feel the roads get worse.

[Lancer]

Going from any state to Nebraska is like going from the first to third world roadwise.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Interstate highways (hell, any roads or highways for that matter)

[Wiglaf]

preserving sanctity of marriage why has no one mentioned this. it is quite costly because of all the armies of lawyers for the homosexuals constantly filing suit against the government.