| The Republican strategy is to "shrink the size of government until we can drown it in a bathtub." The result will be the opportunity to privatize services currently provided by government so that they generate more profit for investors and less services for citizens. |
| Republicans don't want to shrink government, they just want to redirect it's spending. Instead of going to the safety net, they want it going to military expenditures and interest on the national debt.
The conservative mantra, whether it comes to energy policy, war in Iraq or education, is to siphon public money into the private sector whenever and wherever possible, through such gimmicks as agribusiness subsidies, school vouchers and the hiring of private mercenaries. Source: "The GOP's Sabotage of Social Security" by Robert Sheer - The Nation - 12/21/04 Why are they driving up a huge national debt that our kids and grandchildren are going to have to pay off? I'll tell you why they are doing that. They are doing that so that they'll come back before the American people and say, "We cannot afford to maintain Social Security; privatize it. We can't afford to protect Medicare and Medicaid; privatize it. We can't afford to protect the Veterans Administration; privatize it." That is their cynical plan: to destroy the basic rights that millions of people have fought for and received, and to bring us back to the nineteenth century, where the American people had no rights, where the elderly were the poorest people in our society, where children slept out on the streets without nutrition programs, where workers were unable to form unions, where there were no health care programs for the elderly. That is what they are trying to do, and we are not going to allow them to get away with it. But if we focus on the basic economic issues--and we explain to people that when they cast their votes solely on issues like abortion, or gay rights, or any other single issue, the rich and the powerful are laughing all the way to the bank--we will be successful in bringing people together and winning elections. Source: " We Are the Majority" by Bernie Sanders -- The Progressive - Feb. 2004 |
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