On 2004-11-17, play-on wrote:

We have a hell of a lot more than we did back then too. Are you
planning to pave your own roads, maintain your local civic
infrastructure, deliver your own mail, be your own fire and police
deptartment, and fight your very own "war on terror"?

I have paved my own road. In fact, I've owned it long enough to do it
*twice*. I'm not sure I follow your reasoning, because you seem to
regard self-sufficiency as a bad thing, and I see it as an ideal.