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Originally Posted by MS Fowler
Jim,
Your scenario isn't what really happens. It is what is used to sell the government program by cynical politicians who care no more for the guy in your story that a stray cat. (perhaps they care more for the stray cat)
Proof of this can be found at every governmental level when they don't have enough money to pay for all their projected spending. They all use the same tactic every time--"we'll have to close libraries, and lay off police, firemen, and teachers." Why? Because they know the public will not stand for that. SO they get the increase in taxes or debt and continue their overspending ways, and laugh at the stupid citizens who continue to fall for the scam.
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Yes I do agree...
That is a true depiction of what always happens, anywhere and at every level of government. Corporate lobbying and influence peddling is utterly out of control at every level. The current President rails at it to no effect, and both parties embrace it, (the Republicans unarguably worse in terms of actual dollar amounts and frequency,) but the system is, as I see it, utterly ruined, and is essentially run by special interests.
I think the Founding Fathers would be horrified and aghast to see what the country has come to, today.
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