Challenging the Self-Made Myth

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http://www.thenation.com/blog/166574/challenging-self-made-myth

Over the last thirty years, anti-government arguments by conservative pundits and politicians have gained prominence, and the rhetoric this 2012 campaign season seems more toxic than ever. Republicans are relentlessly pushing the notion that lower taxes, less regulation and small government (except for defense) will magically end the recession and create a better country, and “job creators” will lift all boats.

It’s BS. As Congressman Barney Frank recently said, “I’ve never seen a tax cut put out a fire. I’ve never seen a tax cut build a bridge.”

Americans benefit every day from government—from consumer protection to roads and bridges to food and safety regulation—even people who claim to hate an “activist government” are some of the prime beneficiaries of the safety net at a moment when there are still over four unemployed workers for every available job and nearly one in six Americans lives in poverty.

But the GOP has wagered its future on ruthlessly and relentlessly attacking government—it isn’t about to let reality get in the way of its crusade.

[orpupilofnature57]

1. It's their esoteric conversation with the1%

Whilst trying to appeal to the rest of us ,hence the nonsense issues ,so we don't realize that their applying for a pilots job ,and the passengers are the last consideration.

[treestar]

2. Someone needs to point out to people

that giving tax breaks to big business will not help ordinary people start their own businesses.

[JHB]

3. It's about separation of powers and checks and balances...

...which are as necessary for economic power as for political power. Because when one is left to run amok without limit, it pulls the other to it.

[Larry Ogg]

4. Saying less government is best, is not a myth, it's an outright lie...

Although..., without government, there would still be three classes of people...

There would be the filthy rich / .001 percent who own and control everything...

There would be the working class / slaves and cannon fodder, i.e. the expendable poor...

And there would be the super poor whose value has been all but spent, and they will be treated as such,
and meet an uncivil and early death.

The problem is not big government; the problem is that the kind of people government was supposed to guard against,
(pathological lairs, criminals and psychopaths), have covertly usurped the power of government for their own benefit, and if their not above the law, or king of the hill, they will seek to destroy government relentlessly, and lying is a means to that end.

In the short run, the only beneficiaries of less government, would be those who seek to destroy it, and if the predator dominated human race makes it to the long run..., life would never be good for the working class...