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Normally I dont post from Salon as they're pretty biased. But I have been a fan of Robert Reich for a while, some things I agree with, some I don't. But this article discusses that a smaller government would be the result of the government representing the people. The right often goes on about how they want a smaller government, what do you think about what he says?
As for me.....While I think he is discussing a problem, I do not believe his solution "smaller government" would necessarily follow. To some degree yes, but I think a lot of the spending would move to other places. Thoughts?
Normally I dont post from Salon as they're pretty biased. But I have been a fan of Robert Reich for a while, some things I agree with, some I don't. But this article discusses that a smaller government would be the result of the government representing the people. The right often goes on about how they want a smaller government, what do you think about what he says?
As for me.....While I think he is discussing a problem, I do not believe his solution "smaller government" would necessarily follow. To some degree yes, but I think a lot of the spending would move to other places. Thoughts?
Normally I dont post from Salon as they're pretty biased. But I have been a fan of Robert Reich for a while, some things I agree with, some I don't. But this article discusses that a smaller government would be the result of the government representing the people. The right often goes on about how they want a smaller government, what do you think about what he says?
As for me.....While I think he is discussing a problem, I do not believe his solution "smaller government" would necessarily follow. To some degree yes, but I think a lot of the spending would move to other places. Thoughts?
Yup his opinions are pretty much nothing. As evidenced by this link.
As for me.....While I think he is discussing a problem, I do not believe his solution "smaller government" would necessarily follow. To some degree yes, but I think a lot of the spending would move to other places. Thoughts?
I don't agree with him on several fronts starting with his statement that big government is not a problem and "the central issue is whom the government is for". Big government is the problem and he cites several examples. His problem starts here "Consider the new spending bill Congress and the President agreed to a few weeks ago. It’s not especially large by historic standards." That's like saying Hitler was not that bad because Stalin was worse. Comparing the current bloated budget to recent bloated budgets is a useless exercise.
Then he goes on to rant about school lunch rules that he doesn't like because food companies will make more money. That's a useless whine. The real solution is to get the federal government totally out of the school lunch business. Let parents and schools decide what they will have in their cafeterias. Defining school lunches is not an appropriate federal government function.
I agree that we should drastically reduce military spending and eliminate corporate welfare. But he chooses his corporate welfare diatribe carefully. Notice he did not complain about the billions going to alternate energy companies and the huge tax breaks for Hollywood which are the pet corporate welfare of the Democrats.
He whines about wall street because "This increases the likelihood you and I and other taxpayers will once again be left holding the bag." Well guess what? We shouldn't be left holding the bag. The solution is not more legislation. The solution is to let these companies fail and quit bailing out rich corporations and rich unions with our tax dollars. Maybe they would behave differently if they knew we (the taxpayers) would not bail them out.
And finally, restricting campaign donations does not benefit anybody. Only a fool would think the wealthy elite can be restricted or even should be. Campaign finance is not our problem. Huge government is our problem.
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