I have been thinking about this topic for a long time as I watched it unfold in front of me: Why are public services being maligned, their services being cut in the guise of overspending and abuse of tax dollars while at the same time we are spending unlimited amounts of tax dollars on endless wars and handing money over to the profiteers of those wars??
Why is public education such a mess? Why is the post office widely thought to be inefficient? Why are we defunding Planned Parenthood and slicing away at Social Security and Medicare?
And then, this morning I read this article which basically says what I have been worrying about - its all about the money; not the money saved mind you, but the potential money to be earned by privatizing public services!
http://www.salon.com/2016/09/24/behold-the-gops-not-so-secret-plan-to-dismantle-government-services-defund-degrade-and-then-privatize/
Seriously, we hear all about government waste, free loaders, inefficient government services, etc, etc. etc...but my question is: What has the GOP done for the people? What programs or services have they supported? How can we prove that the GOP supports the common good?
That's it right there - how do the policies and practices of the GOP support the common good? Someone please tell me...
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