How snow removal tells us about our Government

That is an odd title I know but bare with me... After plowing for 20 straight hours I became a bit fuzzy in the head and started trying to correlate things together like apples and oranges for instance!
Open your imagination and consider this for me. Plowing reflects our government in so many ways, metaphorically speaking. Let me tell you how I came upon this nugget of incite. I had been out for about 5 hours when I noticed a guy struggling to get his Mercedes out of the snow on the side of the road. Now, driving a Mercedes we can safely assume that the man has a good deal of money. He had lost control of his car and ended up on the shoulder. Mind you this was the 3rd time I saw him on 27, within a 5 mile span. It seemed that he was going to leave his car for dead and take a cab or call someone with a truck or try and flag me down. At that moment I realized that no matter how rich he was, the plow tricks were going to swoop right by him and cover his car in snow, making it nearly impssible for him to get out.
And this is where I started thinking. The plow trucks have a job to do. That job is too quickly clear the roads to make them driveable for people. With the amount of traffic that 27 takes every day, stopping to help that one man, or a few men who happened to be stuck could be disastrous for the masses. This would cost everyone more time and money because the road was not properly done or done in time and all of the folks who would typically travel that road would have to suffer by taking a different, longer route or possibly getting stuck as well. Overall costing everyone more money and time! In essence, what is good for the masses, ie. what is going to help out more people in the long run is what needs to be done.
We plow right by his car and if he wants to get it out he will have to either pay someone to do it or... now this might shock and appall some of you... he might have to do the work for himself! Oh My Gosh!
So what about someone who cannot afford to pay someone to get his car out. And now they can't get to work and make money. Well, the plow trucks, in this instance consider the plow trucks to be government officials, cannot stop, spend the extra money to help this person while pleasing the masses. As we have seen, this would disrupt the protocol and more people would suffer for this one man. But who can help? You... Me... Himself. As private citizens we can help this person who is stuck. Really dig into your imagination and pretend that I am super rich. I could have made a call to a friend who has a winch and paid him $100.00 to help this person, or I could have raised money with my neighbors and helped out many people, or I could have driven my truck, at my own expense and personally helped as many people as I could. Of course this person could have helped himself if he were able... He might have to make some sacrifices, I know that should not be expected of individual citizens!
The idea in a nutshell is that many government funded special interests like the imaginary special interest that says if a plow truck sees a stranded motorist he must get out and help him despite the ramifications, are a waste of time and money and harm more people than they help. However, considering that one of the morning news shows did a study and found that Americans are by far the most generous nation in the world, why is it so hard to believe that these people couldn't use their privately held resources to help others?
The government did their job by plowing the roads, and salting the roads... keeping us safe from the evil that snow is...

The Players

Small plow trucks: Government officials, ie. congress
Big Plow Trucks: Presidential Administration
Snow: nukes, terrorists, poverty, general things that hurt the and their livelihood
The People: The People
Private Businesses, communities: Lobbyists, special interest groups
Money or contracts: Favors, re-election votes
Public Roads, Public arenas: Military, Cops, firefighters, teachers, govt employees


I'm not going to go through the explanation here but think about it for awhile. Just think about how horrible your commute would be, how much time and money would be sucked out of you for the many people who think the Big and Small plow trucks should take care of the snow for them instead of doing something for themselves... NO ONE IS ENTITLED!
Aesop's moral to the story: You are responsible for yourself and your family. The more you rely on the government the bigger the government gets... And the bigger the government gets the smaller your individual rights become!

A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves. - Bertrand de Jouvenel

A good government is one "which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread that it has earned. - Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) (inaugural address)