You still don't get it. Republicans have been making suckers out of you since the Regan days.
The only stealing going on is by banks and corporations taking money from the working class, spending it on their lifestyles, stuffing the rest of it in banks, that also are just sitting on it, and investing the rest overseas. There's no reason for them to invest it here. They've bled the American economy dry. Sucked out all the cash, all the individual credit, sucked out all of the cash people have been able to borrow against their home values, and now all that is left is pensions and the social security trust fund, and, mark my word, their are coming for that too.
The Republican Party has been making fools of you by selling you social issues, selling you lies and misinformation that make you believe things that aren't true, from the lie that the health care bill raise the deficit (10 minutes in google would show your that's not true), to convincing you that small government is better than a big one (just how small small should be is never clear, nor is it mentioned that the size of government went down under Clinton (Gore got the assignment) and got hugely bigger again under Shrub) or, and this is the big one right now, that the budget is our biggest problem. It is a problem, but not our biggest one. Clearly the economy and jobs are the problem right now and we had better hope big government can help prime the pump because the wealthy, banks and corporations are going to do what they've been doing since the collapse in 08, which is sitting on piles of cash or investing it elsewhere. Yes, spending on social programs is a problem, but it's small potatoes compared to the problems we face this very moment. Unemployment is 17 million in real terms, wages are going down as people lose high paying jobs and replace them with low paying ones, millions more are falling below the poverty line, over 40 million people are on food stamps (an obscene amount of them are children), state services are stretched to the breaking point, and if the fraud found in mortgage lending uncovered by millions of foreclosures continues to scare people away form buying foreclosed properties we'll have another dip in property values that will shock the economy into double dip and we'll see another huge round of job loss. Carry 15% (20-25% real) unemployment into the next election and you guys (Republicans) can get a ham sandwich elected president, an I know you have one ready to serve. Do I have to say her name? Just keep being gullible and that's what we'll end up with. Small, underfunded, weakened Federal government with her trying to govern through twitter and the banks and corporations getting their hands on the social security trust fund, pensions, because that's all that's left, leaving working class tax payers holding the bag. (the bag being the national debt with treasury income reduced to a trickle).
Then, you'll understand what small government really means. You'll be seeing it soon enough if you live in California, Ohio, Illinois or other states that have huge recession related deficits. States will be shifting the bill for education and services back to counties, cities and towns. Then, you'll be able to decide just how much you like your small government. Most likely, most of you that have been conned into the blame everything on government game, will yet again, blame that on the people in office instead of seeing it as the reality you've been asking for for ages. I expect you'll just go on an another binge of watercooler outrage running around like your hair is on fire, jumping up and down with your arms waiving wildly, then you'll vote out the latest bums and replace them with even less competent people than the last, until no one even remotely qualified to do the job would ever set themselves up for the abuse. We are practically at that point already.
And it's because you are the gullible. You've been conned into voting against your own financial self interest (unless you're a top 2 percenter) since Ronald Regean. You prefer politicians who's only skill is parroting back to you what you've told them you want to hear, not honest analysis of where we are, what our problems are and what will fix them for working class people, not the top 2 percent. This last election, you went with people who lied about the new health care law while the health insurance companies raised your rates again (just check), told you your taxes went up when in fact there hasn't been a middle class income tax increase since before President Clinton, or that they were about too when they were not, I could list a page of lies you believed.
Even if you argue my facts, and Republicans seldom argue facts because facts aren't on their side, I hereby force you to admit to the reality that your party, the Republican party, and your philosophy, conservatism, have been running the US government for decades. Republican Presidents, 20 of the last 28 years, both Houses of Congress for 10 of the last 12 years (up through 2008), and how has that worked out for us? You handed us a bankrupt treasury with the tax give aways of 2001 and 2003, the biggest terrorist attack since Pearl Harbor, 2 endless expensive wars, and to top it off, the culmination of let boys be boys regulatory policy and the undermining and underfunding of the Security Exchange Commission and we have what is only the SECOND biggest economic collapse in our country's history. And you wonder why the 111th Congress was so activist? Somebody had to do something. Still, you are against doing something. So naked is your grab for power that you will let people suffer rather than solve just so you can elect your ham sandwich.
You demagogues preach to the Tea Party. A demagogue being, "one who will preach doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots."
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