"Government" is the problem (!!)(??)

The good ol' US of A is going in the opposite direction of History.
Screaming Tea Party (and many Dems)are falling for the old Reagan one-liner:

"Government is not the solution, Government is the problem"

Let's see what the country would look like without he Government:

Roads:
Good Morning: You are going to work. Don't forget to fill your pockets with coins and bills. Remember there are no public roads, all are toll roads, every foot! All roads are private!

Schools:
Don't forget to take your kids to school. Private schools, that is. If you cannot pay for Private Schools, your kids may just be home, or roam the malls, or join a gang. School tuition - from Kinder-garden through College - are going through the roof. Hope you make enough money to put your kids though ANY school!

Workplace Accident:
OK. So, you are at work, a friend injured himself and needs to go to the Hospital. All hospitals are 100% private and no provision to help anyone at the ER who cannot pay! Remember, that provision was created through the Government, now the hospitals are free to just deny anyone healthcare as they see fit.

Sept 11 happened:
It is Sept 12, and you are mad as hell at these terrorists who murdered 3000 people. You want to do something! You want to hit someone! You are going out of your mind! If we only had a military force that could launch an attack on the country that harbored and nurtured these criminals. But, oh, no, we got rid of the Government and so there is no Military! Although people who want to reduce the reduce the enormous Military spending (More than the entire rest of the world combined!) are accused of “not supporting the troops”, most people realize that the bulk of the almost trillion dollars per year we spend on the Military doesn’t go “to the troops” (as they say), but to military contractors and industries.

But no government means No Government, right? We don’t want to accuse the Republicans of being hypocritical. We either say “No Government” or we don’t. Or is it OK with Government, as long as we spend the money on the things they like?
Presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann asked the Government for millions and millions of dollars for projects in her home state (while at the same time accusing the Dems and the President of, quote "an orgy of spending”

Example: The Big Lake Rail Park project. Michele Bachmann asked for money from the Federal Government, because, “it could” as she wrote, “create up to 1500 jobs”.
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Now, Government is good for some things, apparently!

This is why this country is broken.

I could not have said it better myself.

This is a good article!

Read it now!

"Stop jobkilling tax-hikes"

The 400 Richest Americans Pay An 18% Tax Rate

Read article in left leaning Forbes Magazine.

In response to Republican foolishness

Bryson wrote on someone's Facebook Page:

"It is Now time for Obama the Leader to solve it , but when the liberal masses want to ignore it with kick it down the road tax and spend policies from the 60's .. We Are All Doomed !!"

Response:
Listening to you is like hearing when Jay Leno on his Jaywalking and asking people "Who did we fight in the Civil War?" and the person says: "Adolf Hitler". That is about the level.

The deficit is there because massive amounts of money has been redirected from ordinary people to the 1% of the richest people in this country in the last 10 years. The 400 richest families now own more than the ALL the rest put together. And when people drape themselves in the FLAG and say "Let's support our troops" - they are really saying: "Let's spend $700 billion (!) per year to defense contractors. The entire world's defense spending doesn't even come near one year of US defense spending.
And when the Republicans "agree" to revenue increase, the senator from Arizona said today on TV, he was willing to raise fees(!) - that hit ordinary folks much more than anyone else. Of course, they don't want to let the Bush tax cuts for the top 1% ever expire, because, as Boehner puts it: "The American People don't want massive tax hikes".

You have to learn to translate their language to what it really means!
"We don't want to want job-killing tax hikes" means: "The people who paid for me to get here don't want to pay their fair share of taxes"
"We must cut spending" means "People without food, health care, housing and influence can take care of themselves, as long as we don't cut in the tax give-aways for corporate jets and tax cuts for billionaires"
Learn the language! Learn to translate!

This dude does not know what he is talking about.....

Read This!

Israel's Never Looked So Good

It can be found at www.huffingtonpost.com
Always full of insightful articles!