Republicans relationship with government
They will not admit that they hate government. They say that they just believe in "smaller government".
In fact, and the present House majority will bear it out, their entire focus is not on fixing problems that only government can fix, but rather, on cutting government programs wherever possible.
Common sense tells us that we would not be good at something if we did not believe in what we were doing. How can we expect Republicans to be good at governing if they do not believe in government? The evidence of the last 30 years proves this is the case.
Republicans will not admit that they like to spend money as much as the Democrats but only on different programs - and they don't like to pay for it. Look at who has created most of the debt and deficits up to the present time. Obama is mostly working with deficits that were built into the budgets of the last Republican President. He has not spent $5 trillion dollars on new spending, contrary to what most Republicans believe.
Republicans, by their nature, exist to make government smaller. Their concerns are not focused on the needs of the many. They want to maintain the economic status quo or to make their tax responsibilities even lower. They are not concerned with the needs of the people at large. That is who they are - they only pretend to be compassionate to keep a credible voting bloc to protect the wealthy class that runs this country. It has always been thus.
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