It's ineffective by it's very nature.
Our taxes go up because the Gov wants to pay lazy assholes like you and your relatives to vote for them.
Yea, that Thomas Jefferson and George Washington were cock suckers huh? I bet we'd be even more free if they would have just handed over the country to the Robber Barons.
You guys have been brainwashed to think your government is the problem but the problem is it isn't your government anymore. Well it is because you are the stupid cock suckers who voted for Bush.
I can't speak for Tom or George, but I pretty sure you are a rump ranger....hence the anger issues.
I can also tell you this.....I don't need your Gov to give me things, I don't need food stamps, I don't need Obama to lecture me about well anything.
You think the world owes you "stuff", it doesn't.
Nobody owes you shit and you don't have the balls to take it or earn it.....you just stand there with your hand out and your mouth open hoping for a little Bammy jizz.
All I care about, me, Mr. Common Man Conservative is that you pecker heads just worry about you...and if YOU want more you do like I do, you go earn it.
Work longer, work harder, work more.
Save.
Just like I do.
You didn't benefit from a good public school? Why, are your parents rich enough to send you to a good private school?
I was going to expound but then I read where you said work longer, harder and more???
Really you fool? Seems to me the liberals/unions/democrats/progressives fought and won you a 40 hour work week. Before that it was 80. No overtime. You are simply a fool.
But if you want to work harder and longer for less go for it.
Reagan, like George W. Bush after him, failed to understand that when people come together into community, and then into nationhood, that they organize themselves to protect themselves from predators, both human and corporate, both domestic and foreign. This form of organization is called government.
But 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. Nurturing and protecting, they suggest, is the more appropriate role of religious institutions, private charities, families, and - perhaps most important - corporations.
Let the corporations handle your old-age pension. Let the corporations decide how much protection we and our environment need from their toxics. Let the corporations decide what we're paid. Let the corporations decide what doctor we can see, when, and for what purpose.
This is the exact opposite of the vision for which the Founders of this nation fought and died. When Thomas Jefferson changed John Locke's "Life, liberty, and private property" to "Live, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness," it was the first time in the history of the world that a newly founded nation had written the word "happiness" into its founding document. The phrase "promote the general welfare" - another revolutionary concept - first appeared in the preamble to our Constitution in 1787.
Talk show cons and TV talking head cons and political cons - both Republican and DLC Democratic - repeat the mantra of "smaller government," and Americans nod their heads in agreement, not realizing the hidden agenda at work.