Reply #84: Its a GOP strategy developed by Grover Norquist ...

[JoePhilly]

Their goal is not to destroy the government. Their goal is to put the super rich in charge of everything and create an underclass of quiet compliant workers. Workers who know their place. Workers who understand that they are not part of the ruling class. Basically a form of corporate fascism.

It works like this ...

You (the GOP) endlessly claim that the government is BAD and incompetent. When your party is in power, you gut the government of real agencies that work and fill it with cronies and hacks who do nothing but your biding. That's how you get Katrina. That's how you get the DOJ scandal. Mining disasters. Oil spills. Regulators pass freely from industry to government, and back, you goal is to merge the two entities.

When you (the GOP) are out of power, you obstruct on all fronts. You impeach a President over a BJ ... you call the President a socialist, and you continue to scream that the government is bad and incompetent using the mining disaster and your oil spills as examples. You (the GOP) suddenly pretend to care about the deficit. Evil government, stealing from your kids to pay teachers while we have 2 wars. How unAmerican!!

You complain about taxes and spending, but you are very selective in that. Low taxes for businesses and the rich, higher for everyone else. But you claim you are protecting everyone from the "Death Tax", a tax that only effects about .3% of all families.

You trade spending on social programs like education, for spending that goes directly to private businesses. You pretend that war is free.

You allow money (via the rich) to decide elections.

Grover Norquist's famous quote is that he wants to make the government so small, that you could drown it in a bath tub.

Of course what he really means is that he wants to end all social programs because that frees money to be spent on private businesses. Businesses that you are merging into the government.

So the negativism is a tool used to frustrate the average person to the point where they throw up their hands and give up ... and become a nice quiet worker, happy to have a job at all, while the United State's Board of Directors, guides the hands of the US CEO, oopss, I mean President.