Real reason GOP needs to push tax cut agenda.....

[Fresh_Start]

GOP is the "B" team from top to bottom.
Government and Country GOP-style is just not worth as much to anyone.

Would you be willing to pay full price for dinner at a rat-infested eatery?

[bearfan454]

1. Good point nt

[Captain Angry]

2. The B team is part of the bigger problem.

Lower the taxes, reduce what government is able to do.
Put morons in charge of everything, every government office, and it lowers the expectations of that office.

If you want to eradicate regulation and control over time, you need to make it incompetent. Reduce their budgets by reducing the incoming funding, and you can close agencies you don't like.

So, I know you were being silly, but I think it's close and is part of a bigger plan. The wholesale dismantling of the Federal Government until all it does is act as a mercenary army for corporations who pay for it.

Or, at least that's how I see it. :-)

[calimary]

3. Welcome to DU!

Again, I think.

And I suspect that's EXACTLY what they're after. If you gut the agencies, they can't do their jobs. Hardly anybody there of any credibility or reputation or experience, so the whole outfit flounders. Then when a big test of its ability arrives and it can't cut the mustard (example, FEMA), all these assholes have to do is point at it and say "see? We TOLD you it was no good. Why should we keep funding this incompetent shit?"

I don't want to sell my government off to some corporation or side-car specialist or shadowy subcontractor or mercenary. Where's the accountability then? And there still has to be - after all, they're doing all this with OUR tax dollars.

[Captain Angry]

4. Yep.

Privatize! It's the only way! The government can't innovate like a small business!

Accountability doesn't exist with the private company, you're absolutely right. Worst thing that can happen is that the Corporation can be dissolved. Only to form the next Monday with a new name, but the same old Rolodex. (Rolodex, does that make me old for knowing about those?) :-)

It's all part of that damn "personal responsibility" mantra. I had dinner with somebody last night, and was explaining the problems with subprime lending and the housing crash that's going to happen next year. He said, those people should have known what they were doing when they signed the loans. I asked, how is a doctor or a shopkeeper supposed to compete with a banker for knowledge of the lending process? They should expect that the information that they're given is accurate and in the best interests of both lender and borrower.

He kept trying to argue personal responsibility. I asked him if it was reasonable to believe that if a bank lies to make a loan, that it is very difficult for a borrower to realize that this has happened. And with no regulation, there is nobody to protect the borrower from a predatory lender, especially when that lender is one of the top 5 banks in the country.

He conceded that point, but probably only to make me stop talking about it.

People should have to look out for themselves, but it is hard to compete with a whole industry that is out to get you.

PS: Thanks for the welcome. :-)

[BlueIris]

6. "...it is hard to compete with a whole industry that is out to get you."

People ask me why I love DU, and observations like this are why.

[thoughtcrime1984]

5. Yup, boneheaded Repubs just don't get it

Privatize everything (including schools- beware!), so that taxes are lower, but the real truth is that we will pay several times the amount of the saved federal taxes on privatized services, and also much higher state and local taxes. Lowel levels of gov't are overburdened by all that the Bush-Cheney administration has shuffled on down to them. The rich could care less and the stupid fail to see what is going on. We MUST get our candidate into the WH- at all costs.