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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI do not want to hear one shutdown complaint from any Grover Norquist cultist.
Y'all are the ones who were so damn' sure we could shrink government to drown it in a bathtub and rely on the magic of an invisible hand to take up the slack and ensure a livable community.
Now you're getting a taste of what that might be like. Do you see any private sector entrepreneurs stepping up to ensure the safety of our food supply?
How about all those v-cappers who rushed in to clean up the messes on federal land? Oh, wait, I hear y'all muttering something about how there shouldn't BE any "federal land" because it should all be in the hands of the Noble Titans of Industry and Agriculture, creating jobs for all.
Okay, in that case, let's go ahead and devise a fair and equitable way to recompense every citizen for the loss of their share of those commons, and an orderly process to implement that and enable those same Titans to compete on a level playing field to do the best job with those resources. Except that the federal courts are about to shut down, damn.
I'm sure everyone trusts some private-sector substitute for them to carry out the process, though, right? The magic unseen digits would hold them accountable, natch.
What, your flight may be delayed or canceled because of unsafe conditions? After you had to wait for HOURS to get through security?
Quitcher whining. Pony up another grand for your economy ticket from Omaha to Miami and those sterling capitalist warriors will spring into action to provide nationwide security, safe airspace, and seamless interaction with those services worldwide.
You've got a great idea to start a little capitalist enterprise of your own to step into the breach? Sounds wonderful! Take it to the SBA for... oh, wait. Ne'mind. I'm sure you can get EXCELLENT terms from your local bank. Or one of those generous, patient, collaborative v-cap types, right?
Your daughter got laid off from her barista job and now she can't afford her rent and has to come back and live with you while she looks for another job? NO!! So sorry, but while that federal building is mostly empty, not too many people are nipping next door for a caramel macchiato. But those parasite federal workers never contributed anything to the "real" economy anyway.
Your brother's check for the compensatory farm subsidy to make up for the unsold soybeans didn't come through? So what? He's a farmer, he can grow more stuff, right? Oh, he needed that money to pay for seed and fertilizer for a spring crop? Dayum. But hey, he sounds like a taker anyway. Without all that expensive stupid government support for agriculture we can all start paying the real prices for food, now. You're gonna love that.
By the way, what IS that nasty stuff in the creek behind your house? Smells awful! But I'm sure it's safe. It better be, because the EPA's got no one available to come and check. But hey, the fittest will survive.
Oh, and what are you going to do about that near-disaster when the generator you fired up during the winter storm power outage caught fire? If it was me, I'd file a complaint about product safety with the Consumer Complaint Center. If it was open, of course.
Well, at least we can get on with kicking out all those undocumented immigrants, right? Leaving more great, wonderful, highly-paid jobs for real Americans? Ummmm.... no, not while 42,000 immigration court hearings have been postponed because there aren't any of those useless grifter federal employees to undertake them.
So, you're finally getting a taste of what you've said you really wanted, all along.
Hey, just wait 'til the CDC has to shut down emergency responses for the massive epidemics of food-borne illness that are on the way!
Won't that be fun? But at least government will be smaller, yanno?
So will the population.
And there'll be tons of work for gravediggers, crematorium operators, etc. You might want to invest in the manufacture and distribution of body bags.
Someone should be making a few bucks off this "smaller government" your God Emperor of Weeniness is "helping" us pilot.
ironically,
Bright
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,024 posts)oasis
(49,150 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,437 posts)FreepFryer
(7,077 posts)MarcA
(2,195 posts)Destroy democratic government and impoverish the 99%.
Everything and Everyone owned by the Oligarchs: Kochs,
Mercers, Singers, Norquists et al and their Enablers: Ryans,
McConnells, Princes, Trumps, Putins, etc. They should be
treated like the murderers they are.
TygrBright
(20,733 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,024 posts)The propaganda machine runs from anti-semitism (see the Soros paranoia) to zomg-nuts (see Alex Jones, in general).
GOP is a coalition of everyone they can convince is a victim, even if GOP is the victimizer. Liberals are uniformly painted as "the enemy" -- coming for their guns, bathrooms, freedom to be racist, money.
erronis
(14,942 posts)Just getting the non-idiots to not vote is part of the action. Make the alternatives seem sullied, not valid. It only takes a few nudges to influence outcomes.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)with delayed pay (assuming trump doesnt try to screw them), GOPers will say/believe that we dont need as much government because things worked OK during a shutdown. They are too stupid to realize its short-term and most employees are working to keep things going for a little while.
Thats what ticks me off.
GoneOffShore
(17,309 posts)The state, he argues, should not be seen to work. If the state is seen to work, we shall never be rid of it.
From an Alan Bennett play I saw yesterday on the NHS.
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2018/jul/18/allelujah-review-alan-bennett-bridge-theatre
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)2 sides to everything one side being laughable.
GoneOffShore
(17,309 posts)And in the case of Reaganism/Thatcherism, hateful.
woofless
(2,670 posts)bluecollar2
(3,622 posts)dameatball
(7,380 posts)many food inspectors, since there will be much less food. Yes, that is sarcasm.
thesquanderer
(11,953 posts)...because it's not paid for, it only increases debt.
LuckyLib
(6,814 posts)kimbutgar
(20,873 posts)I hope she is frying in hell and experiencing the everyday life of a person being a so called taker..
ancianita
(35,812 posts)Last edited Tue Jan 22, 2019, 03:54 AM - Edit history (1)
Anarchists think that we "statists" don't need government to scale up services in the third largest country on the planet.
As if that has always worked out so well elsewhere.
Thanks for your post. It's great stuff.