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

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119. thank you!!!

Our "liberal" media has been aiding the corporations (since they are corporations) with the meme that the government squanders our money, the government employees are paid too much, the government doesn't do anything but regulate those poor corporations. Over twenty fekkin years of the same BS over and over again. Until the people in the country buy into the US vs THEM way of thinking. That the people are not part of the government-remember "we the people?"

When little boots did his obscene tax cuts my hubby's aunt was gushing about it. I told her then, that the american people would wind up paying the bill big time. As he started wars, allowed his "base" to not pay taxes and basically cut support to states, the states would have to find a way to keep their head above water, which means higher property taxes, higher sales taxes and some states, higher state income tax. It's the trickle ON effect.

But let's not "beat around the bush", the whole environment is to allow more privatization of public responsibilities; and WE will be paying more, while labor will get screwed so that those corporations can make a huge profit. It's called selling off the country one piece at a time. And as reich observed, most of these corporations are no longer american, they are global-have no interest in the health and well being of this country or its' people.