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Ohiogal

(32,091 posts)
Thu Jun 21, 2018, 03:01 PM Jun 2018

Weaponizing Government

From the WaPo.

"Just as Republicans pretend to care about the deficit only until they get the opportunity to cut taxes and raise military spending, their concern about overbearing government bureaucracy turns out to be extremely selective. If you’re the right kind of person — a large corporation that would like to pollute more or mistreat its workers, or a payday lender charging usurious interest rates, or a for-profit college scamming its students, let’s say — they’re committed to liberating you from government’s oppressive hand. But if you’re the wrong kind of person — an immigrant or a poor person, let’s say — they’ll use government bureaucracy to increase your misery in any way they can."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/06/21/how-the-trump-administration-is-weaponizing-government-bureaucracy-against-those-it-doesnt-like/?utm_term=.ff591bab2719

**********and this is apparent to anyone with more than two brain cells and a heart! Obvious and sickening.

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