Anybody know exactly when did it all get so ugly - the hatred for government and public employees?

[sabrina 1]

42. No, it was when ALEC and other rightwing Organizations saw all those Public Funds

and set out to grab them for private Corporations. And they've been working on it for decades and mostly succeeded. As a result, we have diminished as a nation because when money is the major driving force of any nation, the people suffer.

Public money now goes to private organizations running Charter Schools, many of which are failing and mismanaging funds.

Public money is now going to Private Health Care Corporations and tens of thousands of Americans are dying because they are either being denied care when they need it, by those Corps, or they can't afford it. No other civilized country has this problem.

Public money is going to Private, many times, murderous 'Contractors' and we don't have any accounting for it. The Military is the largest Social Program in the history of the world. No one is complaining about our tax dollars going to continue to fund this program, nor to those public funds ending up in the hands of extremely questionable Private Corporations.

Now they are after the SS fund, the prize they have tried to privatize for decades.

People do not mind paying taxes for education, health, defense so long as it is spent ON those issues. But when over one third of it is going into private hands with little or no accountability, they begin to ask questions.