From: invalid@invalid.org   
      
   On Sun, 3 Mar 2013 19:41:45 +0100, Kerstin wrote:   
      
   > "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   
      
   Translation: My welfare pmts. have always been higher when the left is in   
   control.   
      
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