If Washington DC is "inconsequential" in our lives...

[kentuck]

then our government is doomed to failure.

Rick Perry says he wants to make Washington DC as "inconsequential" in our lives as possible. In other words, government is the problem. If there is no government, no regulations, and no taxes, our country will start creating jobs and our economy will boom. So believes Rick Perry. But, to no one's surprise, he is full of shit.

We do not need less government involvement, we need more government involvement. It is obvious that companies will not hire simply because they have more money, from taxcuts or whatever. They are sitting on over $2 trillion dollars in cash at this very moment. The Bush taxcuts are still in effect, lest we forget. Still there are no jobs being created to speak of.

The "government" has to be the employer of last resort to prevent massive unemployment. It is a responsibility of government. We need government to act. Rick Perry is wrong and terribly wrong for America. Government is not our enemy. Government may be the only one that can save us? After all, the government is us.

[Tennessee Gal]

1. Do the people who want to make government inconsequential

want to do without the printing of our currency, public roads, rural electrification, government subsidized telephone wiring, satellite communications, police protection, military protection, the criminal justice system, fire and paramedic protection, an educated and immunized workforce, protection against plagues, public-funded loans, protection from business fraud and unfair business practices, the protection of patents and copyrights, research and development, collection and analysis of data, preventative economic policies by the Federal Reserve Board, the Federal Energy Management Agency, public libraries, agricultural and biological services, the National Weather Service, and public job training? That is just to name a few and notice they don't include Unemployment Insurance, Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid.

[liberal N proud]

2. These people only want to end programs they are not benefiting from personally.

And most of them don't realize all the benefits that we all are beneficiaries of.