Reply #5: RWers vision of a perfect Republic..

[Urban Prairie]

Would be that everything except the military as well as the three branches of government of federal, states, cities and towns became privatized. Never mind that most of them would not have survived, much less even been born if that were the case, since say the nineteenth century.

I would never accuse a RWer of thinking about anything like that thoroughly, because they only selfishly think about NOW and themselves. Their ranting about the debt burden that their children and grandchildren will face is really a smokescreen to create an excuse to eliminate entitlements, so that they can conceivably live out the rest of their lives more prosperously.

They act like stockholders in the US, treating it much like a capitalist corporation, and expecting a huge tax-deductible return on any investment in it, other than defending their assets and earnings from their perceived domestic and foreign "enemies" the latter being mostly the poor, unemployed, aged, and infirm.