From: cricky@arcor.de   
      
   "chaski"   
   "Kerstin" wrote:   
   >   
   >>Why won't the Republican increase the taxes?   
   >>Are they sure, that this stubbornness won't break the USA the neck at the   
   >>end?   
      
   > The underlying goal is to minimize government.   
      
   It is never wrong, if a government has a optimum size.   
   To minimize our government here, would be a good idea, me thinks. :)   
   I don't know, if it is necessary to minimize the government of the USA.   
      
   > By strangling   
   > government on a continuing basis, they hope to "starve the beast".   
   > They fantasize about a pure freedom.   
      
   Pure freedom means for them: Pure freedom just for the Republicans   
   and the rest of this world and the own people can go over the Jordan?   
   Sometimes I got the feeling that the Republicans are a dark and   
   mouldy relict out of the past. Maybe they are comparable with a   
   autoimmune disease. Maybe they don't have realized, that they   
   are a part of the beast. Or it is really their intention to destroy   
   the whole government, to create a nice mess and only some   
   out of their own ranks will turn profit. But that's just sick and has   
   nothing to do with democracy.   
      
   > However, there have been periods   
   > in the past such as the late-19th century Gilded Age of the Robber   
   > Barons where unfettered capitalism led to much evil.  Also there are   
   > many services required in common such as schools, police, etc. which   
   > can only be satisfactorily provide by a government and not so well   
   > "for profit".   
      
   Would the world be a better place, if the Republicans become abolished?   
      
   Kerstin   
      
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