Of course it means we are safer if we don't know what the government is doing. I sort of have the feeling, after working for the government for 18 years, that the less the public knows the better off they are. That way the public cannot get involved in messy things that might affect their lives and the lives of their children.

Just think how nerve racking it was in the late 50's and early 60's for school children to be aware that an A Bomb might drop on them any minute. Think of how many school children, I know I do, have A Bomb complexes and are deathly afraid every time a whistle goes off.

And when they do hear a whistle go off, they have to find a wall - inside of course - lie up against it and hope that they are not kissing their arses goodbye because they knew nothing they did was going to stop them from being vaporized by that bomb.

Or even worse, the sound of prop aircraft going overhead in the dark of night.

Which one of them was delivering that A bomb that was going to vaporize them as they leaned up against an inside wall? See, if the government had never told us about that stuff when we were children we would not have all these complexes now. But the government did and look at us now, cowering in the corner at the sound of a whistle and hiding under our beds at the sound of a prop plane.

By the way, speaking of the government in the form of the USPS, I remember when I was first at McChord AFB and it was Tacoma 99, Washington. Mail got from Grass Valley, CA to McChord AFB in one day. Then they changed it to zip code 99999 to improve service and it took mail 6 days to get through all of the separate zip codes to get to McChord.

Recently I ordered a new cartridge for my printer. I got a good price on it but now it has been from the 28th of last month to the 18th of this month and I was told yesterday I might be lucky if I receive it before next month. Proving that our good old government has improved the postal service to the point it is worse then it ever was.

I also remember that the cost of postage back then when it took one day to get from Grass Valley to McChord was 5 cents. Now we pay 37 cents and get dork. Now, how do you think that American public would have felt if the government had told us the truth about the change in postal service and the real reason for the increase in stamp price? See, it is better that we don't know; that way we are able to be lead like sheep to the slaughter - unless perhaps you do something radical and think.

Our government: Love it or be called a Commie