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It's a vicious circle. More and more people are conditioned to expect the government to fix things, to make their lives better. They vote for more government. They become further conditioned and condition the next generation. Slowly but surely it builds, and here we are.
The right wing seems to think they can somehow stop this process (and even roll it back) instantly, in one fell swoop. And that's where they're blowing it. This conditioning process took decades, generations now, and it can't be reversed overnight. And it will continue unless and until the GOP wakes up and treats government dependence as a longer-term cultural issue.
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There are no welfare parasites larger than the six big banks that control the gopvernment.
Rolling those parasitic behemouths back is going to take a complete rethink about how our economic system works.
Do you have any idea, and how much money we have given CitiBank in the last 40 years?
We've bailed out the very people who pooched this economy.
Welfare didn't do that. Government spending didn't do that, Social Security didn['t do that.
The BANKS did that.
We've given them trillions of dollars. We gave them in the last 10 years more than all the wefare we have EVER given to every American who ever lived.
Wake up and smell the corporate welfare, citizens.
THAT is why this nation is going down the tubes.