Re: Social Contract
Steve Lamb wrote:
Paul Johnson wrote:
You know nothing of my party or it's politics. Socialists are progressive,
not conservative.
Socialists are thieves who pass off their practice under a veneer of
intellectual doublespeak.
No, Republicans are not the least bit socialist. They're anti-public
healthcare, anti-public education, and think laissez-faire economics benefits
everyone instead of just the richest 3% that control 80% of the country's
wealth. Republicans are pretty much the Socialist antithesis in the US.
Yes, and that's why the largest government programs in history have been
enacted by a Republican controlled Congress with a sitting Republican President.
No, the Republican spending spree has nothing to do with Socialism and
everything to do with a strategy called "Starving the Beast."
Jeb Bush published the initial form of that strategy in June 1995 issue
of Imprimis magazine
(http://www.hillsdale.edu/imprimis/1995/June95Imprimis.pdf):
We need to create a "crisis" that will ensure
that there are no alternatives to less govern-
ment. In the case of the federal government, a
constitutional requirement for a balanced bud-
get is just such a crisis. [...]
However, unlike his brother George, Jeb Bush is no dummy. He knows that
a balanced budget is not enough to repeal FDR's New Deal:
In the long term, however, a balanced bud-
get is not the ultimate solution to the problem
of runaway government. Witness the growth of
government in states like Florida and Texas
where balanced budgets are the law of the
land. In those states, the crisis necessary to
deinvent government must come from reduc-
ing the unrestricted flow of tax dollars that
fuels wasteful spending. [...]
This was in 1995. The initial plan for a balanced budget amendment
failed, but the Right Wing does not give up easily. Now the strategy is
to spend government into oblivion--such that the major functions of
government *have* to be privatized.
And here's the topper: they spend the money on themselves so that they
get rich while the government goes into debt, and when the government
sells its functions to pay its debts, they'll buy our government with
the money they stole from us! That's fascism.
The disaster of America's current fiscal policy has nothing to do with
Socialism. It's fascism.
If you voted Republican in either of the last two presidential
elections, you voted for fascists, and you are getting exactly the kind
of government you deserve.
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