"Government is bad" "Government is the poblem"

[SHRED]

Isn't that what this boils down to essentially as seen in the current health insurance rancor?

The millions that have fallen in to the trap of hating their own government?
The years and years of corporate/Republican propaganda, truly escalated by Ronald Reagan and pushed over the airwaves, telling the American people to fear their own government?

That in doing so these scoundrels have convinced the denser minded among us to give up on our representative Democracy and place their trust into the hands of the corporate CEO (unwittingly for the most part).
This truly is a CON game played out on the American people for years now and the fact that many people fall into the negative mindset only fuels the private takeover of our government by the wealthy few.
These people need to realize that they cannot vote out CEOs of health institutions, etc... and start understanding that our government is all we have. It is ours and we need to take it back through education, activism, and involvement.
So many on the Right want to tear down our government when the opposite is needed.
We need to get patriotic about someting besides war for a change, as Edwards use to say.


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[pinto]

1. I think that's a big part of it. Anti-government. Health care reform facts seem secondary.

If that. :eyes:

[Canuckistanian]

2. Government doesn't sem to have any problems running the world's largest military

I don't think administereing health care would be that much of a burden

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

3. Government is bad

is republican speak for 'don't regulate me bro', 'I don't want to pay taxes' and 'every man for himself'.
Unless they need a road built, a tax cut, a tax credit, a law passed or not passed, a technology transfer (ie: sonar to ultrasound etc), then government is good.
But if government looks out for the individual it's bad.

[kentuck]

4. Basically true...

It goes back to Reagan with this present generation of Republicans. Government is the problem meaning we, the people, are the problem. Since we, the People, are the "government". They have more faith in the "marketplace", in capitalism, in Big Business, and in big insurance companies than they have in the people, or the government.

[DemReadingDU]

5. and how many people did the 'cash for clunkers'?

Yeh, government is bad...it gave a $4500 discount on a new car.

Yeh, government is bad...it has Medicare and social security for the old folks, and how many folks give that up?

Yeh, government is bad...it pays for our firemen, policeman, roads, schools, military, libraries, and on and on and on

:wtf: