Republicans think the goverment creates jobs!

[Sean Renaud]

John McCain, Lindsey Graham, and Jon Kyl all agree.

Personally I think they are underestimating the damage that would be done if we start cutting government jobs.

 

[Ham Murabi]

No need to worry. These are government workers, so they are no doubt highly qualified for any number of positions.

 

[richard_daily]

No need to worry. These are government workers, so they are no doubt highly qualified for any number of positions.

Yeah, they could all go lobby for corporations, and help buy laws that benefit the "free market", like Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon and many others do...

http://investigativereportingworksh...cast-lures-former-fcc-aides-lobby-nbc-merger/

According to data obtained from lobbyist disclosure forms and the Center for Responsive Politics, seventy-two percent of the lobbyists hired by AT&T, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Verizon, the National Cable & Telecommunications Association and the US Telecom Association have previous government experience. These organizations combined to spend $20.6 million lobbying the federal government in the first quarter of 2010.

http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/...bby-as-congress-looks-to-rewrite-telecom-law/

 

[NeverEndingMe]

the #1 function of the government worker is to ensure that they have a job
the #2 function is that 96% of government workers are #2

 

[coachdb18]

The best government is the smallest possible government. It is a parasite that creates nothing, never more than a dragging force sucking from the body to which it attaches itself, continuously eroding the life force of the peope, like a cancer of the society. Only those 16 designated needs identified in the Constitution should take our money and our time. We've done a very poor job of identifying and differentiating NEEDS from WANTS. Wants are the province of business, not government.

What's the real solution? 90% of government is not only not needed, but is an albatross we'd be better jettisoning!

 

[KingOrfeo]

The best government is the smallest possible government. It is a parasite that creates nothing, never more than a dragging force sucking from the body to which it attaches itself, continuously eroding the life force of the peope, like a cancer of the society. Only those 16 designated needs identified in the Constitution should take our money and our time. We've done a very poor job of identifying and differentiating NEEDS from WANTS. Wants are the province of business, not government.

Look around the world, at all the countries where things in general go more or less as well as in the U.S. or better. One thing you won't find in any of them is small government. You'll find that in Somalia.

 

[NeverEndingMe]

Look around the world, at all the countries where things in general go more or less as well as in the U.S. or better. One thing you won't find in any of them is small government. You'll find that in Somalia.

keep on living that fantasy

 

[NeverEndingMe]

No need to worry. These are government workers, so they are no doubt highly qualified for any number of positions.

I'm thinking most government workers would have a hard time earning a job at WalMart or McDonald's

 

[TexasWife25]

Oh joy, let's bash "government workers", while pretending we could function without them.

 

[coachdb18]

Look around the world, at all the countries where things in general go more or less as well as in the U.S. or better. One thing you won't find in any of them is small government. You'll find that in Somalia.

If suppressing people into freedom was a viable concept, Eric Honnecker and Idi Amin would be international heros forever remembered for their greatness

 

[KingOrfeo]

If suppressing people into freedom was a viable concept, Eric Honnecker and Idi Amin would be international heros forever remembered for their greatness

When come back, bring pie. And relevance.

 

[coachdb18]

Oh joy, let's bash "government workers", while pretending we could function without them.

What functions could we not 'perform without them'? There are16 identified in the Constitution that are 'NEEDS' (ie defense), the rest are cuttable fat.

 

[bra_man69]

Look around the world, at all the countries where things in general go more or less as well as in the U.S. or better. One thing you won't find in any of them is small government. You'll find that in Somalia.

So you want a bigger government
Do you want live in a nanny state
At some point when government gets so big it fails under it's own wight.

 

[richard_daily]

What functions could we not 'perform without them'? There are16 identified in the Constitution that are 'NEEDS' (ie defense), the rest are cuttable fat.

Whe was the last time that there was an attack on the US borders? How many trillions are spent under the guise of "defense"?

You realize that we could have had the money to provide health care coverage for every american many times over if we hadn't invaded iraq...

and what did you get out of that? Personally I mean?

The chickenhawks need to realize that the constant state of war is bad for our economy, our deficit, and our safety as well, because making more enemies by killing people and arming all sides in various conflicts is a perpetuating cycle.

 

[bra_man69]

Oh joy, let's bash "government workers", while pretending we could function without them.

Sounds good to me
Do we bash the EPA first they forced power plants to shut down in Texas no need to worry about silly brown outs in August.

 

[coachdb18]

Whe was the last time that there was an attack on the US borders? How many trillions are spent under the guise of "defense"?

You realize that we could have had the money to provide health care coverage for every american many times over if we hadn't invaded iraq...

and what did you get out of that? Personally I mean?

The chickenhawks need to realize that the constant state of war is bad for our economy, our deficit, and our safety as well, because making more enemies by killing people and arming all sides in various conflicts is a perpetuating cycle.

Please point out for me in the US Constitution the Article and Section references for the authority of the government to fuck with health care... thanks!

 

[bra_man69]

Please point out for me in the US Constitution the Article and Section references for the authority of the government to fuck with health care... thanks!

Coach save you a lot of time dick_daily likes to lie take what he says with grain of salt.

 

[coachdb18]

Whe was the last time that there was an attack on the US borders?

Ever hear of Mexico and the drug cartels? Have you not seen the photos of the beheaded bodies left in Phoenix? Ask Brian Terry about Eric Holder and his ATF hits on US Border agents! Indeed!

 

[NeverEndingMe]

Oh joy, let's bash "government workers", while pretending we could function without them.

yeah, name 2

everyone is replaceable: everyone

 

[NeverEndingMe]

Ever hear of Mexico and the drug cartels? Have you not seen the photos of the beheaded bodies left in Phoenix? Ask Brian Terry about Eric Holder and his ATF hits on US Border agents! Indeed!

that is pure fiction, plus obama personally only "earned" two million off those gun sales

 

[richard_daily]

Please point out for me in the US Constitution the Article and Section references for the authority of the government to fuck with health care... thanks!

Please point out where the US constitution references attacking other countries in order to make money for political cronies as being considered "national defense"?


Which would have been a better use of funds, invading Iraq, or providing health care for the entire population of this country for the last 10 years?

 

[richard_daily]

Ever hear of Mexico and the drug cartels? Have you not seen the photos of the beheaded bodies left in Phoenix? Ask Brian Terry about Eric Holder and his ATF hits on US Border agents! Indeed!

Yeah, I get it, you believe there's a "brown invasion" happening...

Moron.

 

[NeverEndingMe]

Yeah, I get it, you believe there's a "brown invasion" happening...

Moron.

wow, no end to your insanity

 

[Frizzle_Fry]

Oh joy, let's bash "government workers", while pretending we could function without them.

Tell me how 800k dollar vegas parties, billions in the war on drugs, billions on failed education, and billions more on failed health care are critical to your life being functional? IF they vanished right now I would like to know how it would prevent you from functioning as a human being.

Not that I expect a rational or even remotely logical reply...but I'll wait for one

Go....

Whe was the last time that there was an attack on the US borders? How many trillions are spent under the guise of "defense"?

You realize that we could have had the money to provide health care coverage for every american many times over if we hadn't invaded iraq...

and what did you get out of that? Personally I mean?

The chickenhawks need to realize that the constant state of war is bad for our economy, our deficit, and our safety as well, because making more enemies by killing people and arming all sides in various conflicts is a perpetuating cycle.

You do realize we already spend enough to cover everyone's health care cost already if they gov would quit paying over inflated prices and funneling cash into insurance, big pharma and all the other collective smaller parasites charging the gov insane prices for medical equipment/services right?

Oh wait...I forgot the ultimate liberal cure all..."Just cut them a check for however much they want, it's ok...were not paying for it anyhow so fuck it!!!"

 

[KingOrfeo]

What functions could we not 'perform without them'? There are16 identified in the Constitution that are 'NEEDS' (ie defense), the rest are cuttable fat.

That's the federal Constitution. If you cut what you're calling the the fat at the federal level, the state and local governments, which do most of the governing in this country -- you'd miss them! -- would have to pick up the slack, and it just wouldn't work as well; a modern industrial state needs a lot of government business done at the national level.

I've read message-buttons that say, "The United States Constitution has its faults, but it's a hell of a lot better than what we've got now." Which is a lie. The United States Constitution, as the Framers drafted it and intended it for a decentralized agrarian society, is a hell of a lot worse than what we've got now. Practically every major economic advance in our history, from railroads to airlines, has depended on the federal role expanding into fields the Framers never dreamed of. Read Land of Promise: An Economic History of the United States, by Michael Lind.

The state governments, BTW, are not even in theory limited by "enumerated powers," they have what's called plenary police powers, they can do anything their constitutions (and the U.S. Constitution) do not expressly forbid.