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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

> You notice that for the most part our socialist highway system doesn't 
> pave the road right up to our front doors when we choose to live in the 
> boonies. Same is true of social medicine programs.

Roads are a good analogy for how other social systems might work best. The 
U.S. Department of Transportation coordinates and implements the national 
system of roads across the country through the various states, the states 
add their parts connecting the counties, and then the counties add their 
parts connecting to homes. As the road comes closer to home there is more 
local control and cost. Each entity does what works best to make the whole 
most effective. Imagine if each homeowner built just their part of the 
system. Imagine no national or state coordination; we would have a 
hodge-podge of meandering dirt roads which might be lovely for sight-seeing 
but would ill-serve the needs of society. A road system may be socialism at 
its vital level.