From: cricky@arcor.de   
      
    "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?   
      
    chaski wrote:   
   >> The underlying goal is to minimize government.  By strangling   
   >> government on a continuing basis, they hope to "starve the beast".   
   >> They fantasize about a pure freedom.  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".   
      
   "Ookin' 'n' Eekin'" wrote:   
   > Strangling govt. on a continuing basis?   
   >   
   > How long have you lived on the moon?  The govt. has been ballooning since   
   > LBJ's Great Society of the 1960s with its ensuing welfare state and under   
   > the Marxist Obama resembles a cancer engulfing and controlling all aspects   
   > of our lives.   
   >   
   > I've been a democrat since 1960 but not bragging about it and the only   
   > reason I haven't switched is that the Repubs are wimps who usually concede   
   > on most issues.   
      
   Obama is engulfing and controlling all aspects of our lives?   
   Ehmm.... wasn't that the shrub....that, who...has....   
      
   Kerstin   
      
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