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Can you even hear yourself talk?No Reagan did not believe in Government and neither do you.
It was Reagan who said "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'"
The Reagan/Bush ideologues don't "believe" in government, in anything other than a military and police capacity. Government should punish, they agree, but it should never nurture, protect, or defend individuals.
Let the corporations handle your old-age pension. Let the corporations decide how much protection we and our environment need from their toxins. Let the corporations decide what we're paid. Let the corporations decide what doctor we can see, when, and for what purpose.d
Reagan was the first American president to actually preach that his own job was a bad thing. He once said, "Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first." One can only assume he was speaking of himself and his fellow Republicans
Cons can't imagine anybody wanting to devote their lives to the service of their nation. The highest calling in their minds is to make profit.
As Reagan said: "The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away."
There are, after all, no reasons in the conservative worldview for government service other than self-enrichment. As Ronald Reagan said: "Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book."
What they don't say is that the reason they want to remove government in its protective capacity is because they can then make an enormous amount of money, and have a lot of control over people's lives, when they privatize former governmental functions. They want a power vacuum, so corporations and the rich can step in.
"You Can't Govern if You Don't Believe in Government"
In a May 25, 2001 interview, Grover Norquist told National Public Radio's Mara Liasson, "I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub." Norquist got his wish.www.thomhartmann.com
What is a corporation?
It is nothing more than a government creation.
Most think that the Boston Tea Party was about higher tea taxes. Nope, taxes actually went down once the British crown used the East Indies Co. to put a monopoly on tea in the colonies. That was the reason for the protest, they did not like the corporate monopoly on their tea.
But yea, there were other taxes from the British crown that they did protest, like the Stamp act.
The colonist correctly equated government and the East Indies Co. as one in the same, but you don't.
Don't feel bad, the education system is skewed so that you don't get such truth.
I always get a laugh when I read this quote from Ben Frankin.
It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part.
Benjamin Franklin