Government Works Fine, Just Not For You

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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/08/21


Congressman Paul Ryan is only the latest in a long line of corporate-minded politicians whose core ideology as an elected government official is that government shouldn't work. (File)

Recently, Bob Schieffer ripped into “Washington ineptitude.” Not long afterward, Ted Cruz wowed the crowd in Iowa with an extremist anti-government rant. And Rand Paul is trying to make bad-mouthing government the key to the White House. Nothing new here -- by now this narrative is a familiar and well-established lament – government cain’t do nuthin’.

The fact is, government works just fine. Throughout history, government has pretty much done exactly what we asked of it, and done it extraordinarily well.

For example, for the last thirty years, we’ve asked government to concentrate wealth at the top, strip away New Deal protections for the rest of us, and generally turn increasing amounts of power and wealth over to the rich and the corporations.

And guess what? Government has done precisely that.

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1. '" Inepitude "" My ass, All-Star wrestling at it's worse

Both sides of the aisle in a common goal, screw us.