Thursday, January 21, 2016

Flint, MI

Once you shrink government to the size you can drown it in a bathtub, apparently you get to drown it in lead laced water.

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  1. Don't worry, Jack, it is only poor people who get harmed by these policies. As many have already pointed out, this would NEVER happen in a rich suburb, after all.

    Also, call me a cynic (and I am), but they don't want to drown government in a bathtub, as Grover Norquist so famously put it. They want government small enough that it can be bought out from under us at a lower purchase price. Hence the other declarations by Michigan's Emergency Managers of Detroit being broke and their attempt to off of public goods, such as various art collections at their museum, auctioning off public services to the lowest privatized bidder, and so forth.

    If only there were examples one could point to in history to demonstrate how much human misery these policies cause. Y'know, the parts of history that the Texas School Board isn't busy trying to white-wash out of textbooks for making laissez faire Capitalism look bad and Social Movements look good. But, hey, I'm cynical. ;-)

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    1. I totally agree. I get frustrated when people try to argue we are a Christian nation when we so patently are not. We are a capitalist nation and our god is the almighty invisible hand of the marketplace.

      So yeah, the Republican strategy seems to be to starve the government into inefficacy. Then the argument that we should privatize services becomes easier to sell.

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