Big gov't doesn't work.
Posted on 05/14/2007 3:38:15 PM PDT by oblomov
ON APRIL 2, this newspaper reported that the Los Angeles Police Department had asked Philip Morris USA for a $50,000 donation to help fund its investigation into counterfeit cigarettes. That makes a lot of sense: If TV cop shows have commercials, why shouldn't real police work have corporate sponsors too (you know, aside from the obvious reasons of favoritism, bias and perverse incentives)?
For that matter, what's wrong with wealthy families in La Cañada Flintridge, San Marino and other communities holding constant fundraisers to pay for the unfunded needs of their local public schools — drama societies and marching bands and that sort of thing? Or with parents having to go out and purchase body armor on their own so that their sons are protected in Iraq? What's so odd about the crown jewel of the University of California graduate system, Boalt Hall Law School, having to move toward "privatization" so that it can raise more money and better compete with its private counterparts in an era when state funding has dried up?
What's so wrong, in other words, with hollowing out the public sector and replacing it with a pay-as-you-go society? It is the natural endpoint, after all, of the privatization craze, of the gospel of tax cuts and of the smaller-government-is-better-government mentality that has been on the ascendancy in the U.S. for nearly 25 years.
The New York Times recently offered a particularly striking example: Apparently there are about a dozen jails throughout California that offer pay-to-stay "upgrades." Inmates (or "clients," as they're known) who pay an extra $75 to $127 a day get a cell with a regular door, located at some distance from violent offenders, as well as the right, in some cases, to bring in an iPod, a cellphone or a laptop.
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Some people will just never be satisfied with the lack of control they have over other people.
Libertarian humorist P.J. O’Rourke likes to say that “Republicans are the party that says government doesn’t work, and then they get elected and prove it.”
lol
Robbed the Treasury??? OMG
Only in a perverted sick liberal moonbat mind do tax cuts rob the government
What more can you say?
“Give bigger government a chance”
We’ve been doing that for decades now with no let up in sight. We thought under a Republican Congress and POTUS, it may stop but sadly that didn’t happen, it actually increased more than ever.
I don’t believe at this point that a “small gov’t” conservative can get nominated much less elected.
“Give bigger government a chance”
I give that a resounding NO!
Washington DC = $3,000,000,000 budget
Big gov't doesn't work.
They’re all communists, what do you expect.
yeah sure
Illegal Immigration
Social Security
Tax System
Line Item Veto
Politico's Wage Increase
Anthrax
911 Commission
War Funding
Gang Of Fourteen
Oil Reserves
..yeah they play the shell game and we pay the price...yeah let's give em more to ***k up
Not really my kind of thread but thanks for the ping.
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