Socialism

I was wandering around the internet this morning, angry and bothered by the constant wind...it's been weeks of constant 10 to 20 mph wind. It never stops! And it is making me cranky! but enough of that...

What I found while wandering was this,
In the third week of December 1923 a Typhoid Fever epidemic began in Santa Ana.* The city Board of Health was unable to control the outbreak of disease. Doctors and medical facilities were quickly overwhelmed in what became the most widespread epidemic of Typhoid Fever in California history.
Many of the infected had no ability to pay for medical care. They lay in the street clutching their stomachs, moaning, from the painful intestinal cramps, defecating uncontrollably, going blind from the 104 degree fever, becoming human reservoirs of bacteria that spread disease from one person to the next.
An OCHD investigation traced the outbreak to contaminated milk. A private water well had become contaminated with fecal matter from a private sewer line. This water well had a cross connection to the municipal water supply and had contaminated a municipal water pipeline. A diary in Santa Ana used the municipal pipeline for water to clean the udders of its cows and contaminated the milk with Salmonella Typhi bacteria. 632 people became infected, 48 people died from this epidemic.
This crisis demonstrated the legitimate need for governmental regulatory management of water quality, street sanitation, sanitary sewers, food production and handling facilities as well as preventative and emergency medical care as elements of comprehensive health care management in an urban environment, in which citizens physically separated from each other produced environmental hazards that effected the health of other citizens via the urban infrastructure.
(most of those that were infected were migrant workers...yes, Hispanics)

Now does this make it clear as to why we need government 'interference' in our lives? We are no longer the 'yeoman farmer' citizen model that Thomas Jefferson envisioned when writing the Declaration of Independence and the Virginia Constitution and we have not been for hundreds of years. We are socialists. As long as we use any governmental service, we are socialists. That's lower case 's' socialists; upper case 'S' Socialists belong to the Socialist Party, an entirely different animal than the Jackass and Dumbo the elephant.

* This is the same Orange County in California that is a Republican stronghold and absolutely hates any government interference in their lives...except for the fire dept., the police dept., street and sanitation dept, the Army, the Navy, etc, etc.