Reply to a comment  Reply to this comment  Phoebesies writes:
in response to nsites:  Why don't we just close all the
libraries for good?  Isn't government bad in all forms? Doesn't
it create a "nanny state"? Don't the taxes that support
government services rob us of more important things?  We're all
smart, right? We know better than any pointy-headed, self-
serving bureaucrat whose expertise is really in robbing us of
our freedom.  We don't need government. The free market will
solve all our problems. Businesses serve the customers, and, if
they don't, they go out of business. So we're safe. Even police
protection. Who needs it? We can buy guns and protect ourselves
or even hire neighborhood police with the savings.  Isn't the
natural state of man that of a free, self-reliant individual,
beholden to no one? Isn't it the cowboy in the saddle riding out
on the range, trusting his own instincts and relying on his own
wit and intelligence?  As for public education, it doesn't work.
We've spent all that money on