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Published on Tuesday, December 28, 2010 by Countdown w/ Keith Olbermann
The GOP War on Government: Gutting Public Employee Unions and Public Services While Cutting Taxes for Wealthy
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Show All'Reducing government' or 'shrinking government', 'war on government', and assorted phrases: euphemisms for 'class war'.
Ever heard of a Repugnant calling for cutting back the military budget, the prison, law enforcement, and intelligence agencies budgets, which are all governmental entities?
Repugnants and many Dimwits do not want to reduce government in general or across the board, but only those sectors of government that might mitigate somewhat the brutality of savage capitalism and its armed wing, the world wide web of U.S. military bases, its standing armies, and its endless wars.
Although the Repugnants (and their friends among the Dimwits) use the very general language of big government, their interventions in slashing government expenditures or abolishing certain articles of law are extremely selective and subservient to the interests of large corporations and the military-industrial complex.
Sounds just like the Democratic Party war on government.
Just wait until someday they need some government assistance. The most polite people that have ever help me were "real" government employees. It was the employees of private corporations that were the dumbest and rudest people I have ever dealt with.
Have you ever stayed on line for twenty minutes, and then there is your connection and after the polite introductions, you start your complaint and you get disconnected. Once ok, let us try that again and the same thing happens. It is a blame proof situation. Think about it, the person taking the call never get reprimanded, and the corporate just hopes that you just up and die somewhere because they already have your money.
Chris Christie has launched an all out, relentless, non-stop daily war against public sector workers, their unions, their pensions and health benefits. His most pointed demagoguery is especially reserved for the teachers and their unions. The folks in the private sector who have stagnant wages, no pensions and few or no health benefits are cheering him on. They don't have strong unions to fight for them as public sector workers do. It's class warfare at its best, get the working class people to fight amongst themselves as the rich get richer and Christie throws more tax relief and tax abatements at corporate America. The local chamber of commerces and the right wing media are giving Christie a lot of support and air time to propagandize for disaster capitalism and shock and awe for working class Americans. It's the Walmartization of the US workforce and a race to the bottom, serfdom American style.
crusade against taxes is the winning formula for republicans and reason democrats are left with implementing republican world - it's too difficult to see that taxes are economic pathology that pays public teachers, doctors and the like from money obtained from already performed work, as if it had a different market value
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Yea, and here's how they'll do it... by privatizing and outsourcing government entities (already under way in Wisconsin)....
See:
http://moneyedpoliticians.net/2010/12/27/where-is-the-next-shoe-to-drop/
when was the last time anyone has heard that a billionaire put out someones fire or taught in school or arrested a bank robber? we need our public services. and really all these assholes that say otherwise ask them "where did they go to school?" all these assholes went to public schools just like the rest of us but now they want their taxes cut and everyones children must go to private school. these people have not thought out the reality of what they are asking for. tnutters/repugs must get out of public office, they're too stupid to realize what they're asking for. they follow the funny pricks at faux news.