People on the internet often say: "If I ran my imaginary business like the government, I would be OUT of my imaginary business!" Well, I think they are out of their imaginary minds.
Government is a business. They have customers (that's us), employees (some of us), they make a product (war and stuff, I guess), and they have a CEO and a Board of Directors. That would be the President and Congress. They even have competition in the form of other countries. It is a business!
Now, along comes the GOP and their political wing, the teabaggers. At the very best, the GOP wants to take over government and downsize it- make it smaller. At it's worst, the teabaggers amongst them want to completely dismantle it. They think we'd all be better off foraging for berries in the forest.
Three hundred plus million people looking for berries in the woods is just fucking stupid so, forget about those stupid assholes.
These other assholes- the lamestream republicans- the ones that think Reagan was a great president, they euphemistically believe in "small government". Small government is a government that exists only to wage war and does so without taxing anyone but lazy poor people. This might be their motto:
"From each lazy person, to the job creators, according to what bizzaro Jesus would do."
Governments, like any business, are subject to failure. Your local pizza place has probably had an "UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT!" sign on it a few times in the last couple of decades. Every four to eight years here our government puts out the "under new management"sign even though it's not really "new". There's always holdovers on the Board of Directors and other employees and it's about as 'new' as Sal taking over his cousin Vinnies pizza place. It's kinda all for show. Most of us know that.
But, here's the thing. You can tweak a business and try and make it better by doing this and maybe not doing that but, in a country like this (we're pretty big) you can't make it a small operation after it's become big . Microsoft may have started in a garage but, they're not going back to their roots by going back to the garage. You know why? Because Bill Gates is not a fucking idiot. It's that simple. Yes, it would be cheaper to run Microsoft in a garage but it would be fucking stupid.
So, you can't run America from a garage. The founders never even did that, for you Constitutional scholars out there. The country was not founded in Washington's Ye Olde Coach House after all. Ye can google that.
Besides, who takes over an operation the size of the United States telling the customers that they are going to do LESS for them? A LOT LESS! I can't believe they get people to go along with that but, they do. It would be like Sal and Vinnies Pizza but, instead of them making a pizza (roads, for example) you bring in all the ingredients (concrete, asphalt etc.) and you make your own pizza (road)- just for you! And you pay Sal and Vinnie! NO YUCKY ENTITLEMENTS!!!
Man, if republican's intend to run the government like a literal small business, how soon before they torch the place for the insurance?
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What the GOP can't stand is when a liberal such as yourself, can take the real truth and dumb it down so effectively as to show the teabaggers how stupid their own logic is.
"Ye can google that"
another stellar post from the Fairer Man
BLUSH!
And, thank you!
I think the people who 'buy' this line of reasoning are the ones who don't want the government telling them what they can and can't do. You know, like having licenses for cars and guns. That sort of thing. They'll still want the advantages, but be able to please themselves about everything else.
I hope I get the bloody WV right!
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