NYT's Kristof: 'What is this Republican Eden? It's Pakistan'

[Newsjock]

Source: New York Times

With Tea Party conservatives and many Republicans balking at raising the debt ceiling, let me offer them an example of a nation that lives up to their ideals.

It has among the lowest tax burdens of any major country: fewer than 2 percent of the people pay any taxes. Government is limited, so that burdensome regulations never kill jobs. This society embraces traditional religious values and a conservative sensibility. Nobody minds school prayer, same-sex marriage isn’t imaginable, and criminals are never coddled.

The budget priority is a strong military, the nation’s most respected institution. When generals decide on a policy for, say, Afghanistan, politicians defer to them. Citizens are deeply patriotic, and nobody burns flags.

So what is this Republican Eden, this Utopia? Why, it’s Pakistan.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/05/opinion/05kristof.html?_r=1&ref=opinion

[calimary]

1. i was sure it was Somalia. No government, no order, pirates running amok everywhere, total anarchy.

Or, okay, Pakistan then. Where all the bad guys can hide out for years with total cover and those who count looking the other way or just in over their own heads.

[annabanana]

2. Ah yes. .Pakistan, Where the world's most wated man

can live in peace. Just like Dick Cheney

[lumberjack_jeff]

4. Yup. AQ Cheney. n/t

[applegrove]

3. Brilliant!