LAT: "Republicans want to cut government spending? Not these Trump supporters"

[MisterP]

Retired cop Bruce Everitt displays a Confederate flag in his frontyard, patrols the neighborhood in a golf cart to watch for suspicious strangers and dons a "Make America Great Again" hat to proclaim his support for Donald Trump.
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He and his wife, Kathy, don't hate the government. In fact, they rely on it. Since a stroke ended his police career, the Vietnam War veteran has collected federal disability and pension checks that allowed him to retire early. His wife drew extended unemployment benefits for two years after being laid off during the Great Recession.

They agree with Trump's push to crack down on illegal immigration and worry about Islamic State terrorists infiltrating the country. But they are also drawn to Trump's vow to get the government to stop wasting money on overseas aid and Middle East military campaigns, and to use that money to help people closer to home.
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They heap much of the blame for their sense of a country headed in the wrong direction on President Obama, but are also angry with the Republican Party, which they believe no longer has their backs. And they dismiss the menu of think-tank policies and trickle-down economics offered by other GOP candidates as just the latest broken promises from Washington. Instead, they put their faith in Trump's promises to create jobs and shore up the safety net for healthcare and retirement

http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/la-na-trump-big-government-20160301-story.html

it's not just endless race-baiting that has caught up with the GOP but the bipartisan "send the jobs abroad, distract the voters, and you'll be back as a private lobbyist before they can catch on" tactic

but beyond the cops and welders that are treated as disposable by neolib economics, Trump's appeal is actually rupturing the tremendous illusion the GOP has used to flatter its voters: see, they have to be able to attack government programs but also keep cuts from hitting their voters hard enough to make them dump their representatives; the fact that the American Dream is possible only with Washington's aid has been carefully concealed by Republicans--their states are the "Taker States" and their voters are the dole cases they scream about on the floor and campaign trail

more importantly this trickery lets Reps and Senators take personal credit for all the Fed money they bring into their state--that it's not Washington but the senator's political acumen; that way the checks can keep rolling and the people can be gulled into attacking SS and welfare for decades; but now the era of this politicking may soon draw to an end