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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I am very much making that leap. The process is so busted, as proven by voter apathy, and so rife with disiniformation and abuses by special interests on both sides of the aisle that you and I as voters have very limited ability to ever stop the behemoth that is our ever growing govt sector. The govt is becoming one of the biggest customers of every industry in the country. Granted, that's to be expected in some regards, but lately, the private sector reliance on revenue from govt, growth of pork and wild support for entitlements and calls for more govt interference in what ought to be private industry shows that there is no way to stop the thing. Both parties are now the parties of big govt, and the only people who profit from big govt are those who learn to cream its wonderfully lucrative contracts and those who work for it. We should not be in the business of taxing people so that we can turn around and gift the money back to the chosen politically wired in the private sector or hand it out in entitlements to maintain future loyal voting blocs. Privatization of govt should be the govt leaving certain industries, not a fucking three year RFP process for federal contracts and a swinging door in DC where tax revenues can be handed at a rate of $28 million to a person like John Ashcroft (look it up) for "consulting services."
No one can clean this up, so I don't besmirch anyone for saying "Fuck you. Not with my money."
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I agree with everything but the first sentence and the last paragraph. The reason for the sprawling federal government isbecause deep down that's what people want and what they vote for. No pol. takes on social security and medicade because it's a political third rail. No one takes on entitlements for the same reason. all the pork? we get that because the voters in Alaska actually
want a bridge to nowhere. It's a joke that anyone outside of Anchorage should be paying for that bridge, but someone does actually want it.
