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Re: Celebration and control
by ncwebguy

There are no physical gates around Celebration, but the residents have created their own. There is only one movie theater, and it will only the "right" movies approved by hollywood suits and their focus groups. Ditto the bookstore. Controversy is not welcome in a place that creates the past that never was.

Conservatives love big government, as long as it is *their* big government. The military-industrial complex is virtually unstoppable now. Their jobs are the only ones that have stayed in the U.S. since price is not a factor with the military's buyers the way it is with Wal-mart's (cheaper at all costs). Big Education, Big Pharma, Big Insurance, and Big Agriculture is ok by them even though that has given us schools that teach to tests instead of creating the next generation of thinkers in the name of not leaving childern behind, drugs expensive, ineffective or unnecessary drugs with nasty side effects, "health plans" that work harder to not pay benefits than providing necessary care, and corporate farms and genetically modified/chemically treated everything that put the family farmer out to pasture.

I don't mind when conservative foks choose to create their own prisons, but do mind when they routinely reduce services (schools, police, trash pick up, road mainteance, etc.) for the rest of us outside their gates.

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