Reply #5: Isn't is strange that Rethugs keep saying that...

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they want a small Govt. that is unobtrusive but then push for the following agenda.

Control of America by the Multi-Corps. Control of citizens social rights.

Oh, but their real agenda is this:

The Right Wing Agenda

Abolish

Social Security
Medicare
Employer supplied health insurance
Unemployment Benefits
Welfare
Abortion Rights
Collective Bargaining
EPA
Public Education
Public Housing
IRS

The Republican mantra has always been "Smaller Federal Government". Back in the good old days, a Republican's fundamental position was that power should be in the hands of state and local governments.

Cut to: Today.

As Government services continue to fail on unprecedented levels, one solution to staunching the raft of failures is privatization.

Consider:

The US Army Core of Engineers would be an ideal candidate to restore the Iraq Oil infrastructure while it was clear that the country was still unstable. But, by declaring an end to major combat operations, Shrub made outsourcing a viable policy.

Consider:

The Treasury, in fact the Country, is slowly going bankrupt - When there is no money left for basic federal services, like Prisons, Health and Human Services, National Security, Education, etc. The only alternative would be to Privatize those departments so that they could continue to operate.

Privatization of the federal prison system, for example, would mean billions of dollars per year to a corporation willing to invest it's own money upfront in order to stabilize a catastrophic failure.

Lastly, consider this:

Our intelligence apparatus has "Failed". According to the GAO, our intelligence and defense industry consume about 40% of every tax dollar collected.

In fact, our intelligence budget last year was up wards of 40 billion dollars.

Both parties are convinced that your intelligence apparatus has failed.

What to do? What to do?

Make it private?

Consider: Currently, our intelligence apparatus has been slowly segmented into spin-off's of their parent departments:

NSA, DEA, even Homeland Security.

If there's a terrorist attack on US soil again, because Bush initially opposed the creation of a Homeland Security Department, it could be a relatively easy thing to spin another failure in such a way (especially if folks are shell shocked from an attack) as to allow the privatization of that department.

Remember how easy it was to pass the Patriot act immediately after 9/11?

My guess is that Bush is not trying to destroy the country - he's trying to destroy the government. The ultimate outcome would be a broad privatization of traditionally government run services, with the end result being that out current tax system would be altered, or abolished. Ever single service, from garbage to water to Education to Health and Human services to well, you get the idea, would become Pay as You Go.

In other words - our capitalist democracy would no longer be suited to support the general welfare. We would become a capitalist fascist corporate state.

If you take a look at Shrubs track records, all of the services and the departments that he promised to fund and have not funded usually have some sort of private alternative already operating.

Health care, for example. He hasn't announce any sort of federal health care initative because the private sector is doing a killing.

Education - No Child Left Behind. The private alternative? Private Schools.

Security? Blackwell, Carlyle, etc.

Defense? Boeing, McDonald Douglass, etc.

NASA? All of the above. George did just say he wants to go to Mars, right?

And how about Missile Defense? When that fails (as if it hasn't already...) don't you think there wouldn't be a zillion corporations (Raytheon) lined up to "Fix" it?

New Right Wing

The New Right Wing Agenda
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