What does the GOP want GOVERNMENT to run? Anything?

[Rosa Luxemburg]

The GOP's agenda is privatization.

Privatization of everything from local, state and federal. That means no government and no taxes. They want you to pay corporations for the priveledge.

Your local services will not be run from your council or county - streets will be cleaned by private comapanies, schools will be all private. If you can't afford to send your kid to school - tough - no education. Private police forces, private fire fighters.

The GOP will be in a constant Orwellian-style war so the kids will go to battle. Even the military will be private as we have seen the proto-type in Iraq.

What about health? Seniors and the unemployed would have to buy healthcare from fat insurance companies. If you can't afford it - tough. There will be no help from the government for old people's retirement homes. Your retirement funds will be all private - no social security.

Everything will be determined by Wall Street. Congress will just meet to give the green light to companies. The DOJ will meet to hound, spy on and jail you if you step out of line. The White House will meet to make sure Wall Street gets its way and gets its big donations.

BEFORE 2006 WE WERE ALMOST THERE AND NO ONE NOTICED!

When you are fighting for healthcare, education and the environment think about what Obama is saying - what is the alternative if we piddle around and not get it passed ASAP?

[kenny blankenship]

1. Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Venezuela, anyplace with oil or gas that isn't already "friendly"

[Rosa Luxemburg]

4. People are generally asleep

they could not see what was going on. It's not to say that 'the agenda' could proceed if We Dems tie ourselves up in knots and don't get the legislation through NOW!

[lapfog_1]

15. No, they wanted to turn those over to private companies too. - n/t

[Rosa Luxemburg]

16. yes

[invictus]

36. Exactly!

[bkcc]

2. Women's sex organs.

The GOP is all about deregulation on business and ultra-regulation on individuals.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

3. Yes it's amazing how regulatory they are over the gonads!

[Thrill]

5. They are perfectly fine with Government running what a woman can do with her body

.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

7. Aren't they strange

they poke their nose into anything to do with the body!

[alsame]

6. Domestic surveillance programs. nt

[Rosa Luxemburg]

8. Oh yes!

[Uben]

9. Government should run the GOP

...run their ass clean outta the country!

[Rosa Luxemburg]

11. I agree!!!

[IDFbunny]

10. They admire Mexico

for it's pathetically weak central government and lack of any regulation. They like that only 36 families own Mexico. They like that they are mostly gawd fearin folk and checked by the church. What's not to like?

[Rosa Luxemburg]

12. when you talk about families

that notorious Bush family?

[Joe the Liberal]

13. Their ideology borders on anarchy......

just a complete free for all, a place where lawlessness prevails. It's amazing so many people buy into their bullshit.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

14. The trouble is that the ordinary people don't understand

until they lose their medicare and social security

[KingFlorez]

17. If they lived under that sort of system for even a week, they'd be complaining

If everything was private run, most of the country would be broke and they'd be back to blaming liberals again.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

19. if Bush's financial crisis is an example!

[TTUBatfan2008]

18. They love their Congressional health care plan...

and all the other benefits that they get at the expense of the taxpayers.

[malletgirl02]

69. Republicans

They are like getting their tax payer funded pay checks.

[rasputin1952]

20. Just enough to make sure money gushes upward to their

supporters.

The GOP has become a shell of it's former self, it odes nothing for the American public except destroy the lives of citizens that make less than the gazillions the corps and thieves take in.

[MadMaddie]

21. They want Corporations to run the government 100%

that's it that's all and if Americans die because of it they don't care.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

22. the public don't seem to know about it

anybody care to enlighten them?

[MadMaddie]

23. I don't know how many times one has to be hit over the head

to understand the Repugs motives. The Repug followers are like abuse victims with Stoholm Syndrome, they keep going back for more abuse.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

24. Perhaps some Democrats should explain the GOP privatization on the TV

they have to spell it out

[MadMaddie]

25. Not only do they have to spell it out they need to show

evidence. Today's audiences are visceral and the Dems should take advantage of that.

We need another Ted Turner to start a major network that does real news and none of the bullshit. I think the time is ripe for this.....

[Rosa Luxemburg]

31. Why aren't there more left leaning networks?

there must be some left leaning sponsors?

[MadMaddie]

56. I think that we need a Bill Gates type that is fearless and

is willing to get in the game...that person has not stepped up yet.

[depakid]

26. The behavior in your bedroom

[Rosa Luxemburg]

32. the keyhole

[Cha]

27. Yeah, and they were sooo successful the last 8 years

that they fucking bombed.

[TheKentuckian]

28. The behavior of the individual

They're pretty good with the government controlling you and me.

[Odin2005]

29. People's bedrooms.

[donheld]

30. Marriage

[Cali_Democrat]

33. Great post

That's pretty much the GOP's plan for America.

[LaPera]

34. The republicans love to waste our taxes on the military for their imperialistic wars for profit.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

35. yes we don't see any teabaggers when they borrow millions for needless wars

[TheKentuckian]

40. Yeah, but they'd love to outsource those too. Iraq was the beta test.

[Orsino]

37. Scared.

They want the government, and all the rest of us, running scared. Scared of unchecked corporate masters.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

38. It would seem that way but we do have a chance to change that

[Brentlive]

39. Traditional conservatives or what you have today?

A traditional (i.e. Goldwater) would say the government job is to ensure a fair system of law, protect the state from outside threat, and to protect its citizens in cases of absolute emergency such as a natural disaster.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

43. The 'Goldwaters' would have probably hired 'Blackwater'

[TexasObserver]

41. Privatization allows the GOP to take kick backs in the form of contributions.

When government ran more functions, there was no way to get public money into the campaign coffers of politicians. By privatizing things like prisons, they created the vehicle for massive graft and corruption. The GOP is run by contributions from those who get large government contracts.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

44. If only this could be spelled out to the population

[TexasObserver]

46. Rosa, they just don't get it. They don't connect the dots.

The proponents always sell the idea as a cost saving mechanism, but it's a license to steal.

There are many young doctors who wish we would have some form of Universal Health Care provided, who don't want the insurance industry running it, and who already lament the time they have to spend dealing with and worrying about insurance related issues.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

48. True!

[LynneSin]

42. Abortions - that's about it

everything else they want us out of

[Rosa Luxemburg]

45. Yes

they are certainly poking their unwanted noses in there!!

[OwnedByFerrets]

47. What does the GOP want? They want in my bedroom, and

they want all up in my personal life. They want to control ME, while gathering riches from their Corporate Masters.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

50. Don't forget

to block up the keyhole!

Anything to do with very personal life they're in.

(PS. I love your handle 'OwnedByFerrets!)

[OwnedByFerrets]

57. Thank you very much...we have 8 that we have rescued from

various problem situations.

[madmom]

49. The gop does not believe in government or wants it as small as possible. They want everything

privatized. That is what we need to remind everyone when it's time for elections. If they don't believe in it HOW can they run it?

[Rosa Luxemburg]

52. If the GOP had their way they would axe medicaid

[themaguffin]

51. your bedroom

[Rosa Luxemburg]

54. Yep

they are kind of perverts

[bigwillq]

53. My bedroom and my uterus

:mad:

[Rosa Luxemburg]

55. Yet they have their own laws

they hang around public bathrooms, wear diapers, seduce pages and they expect people to support them?

[and-justice-for-all]

58. They are quite confusing when it comes to this...

one day they want Theocracy and the next they want Anarchy... :shrug: this might because they do not know what the fuck they are talking about.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

59. yes

[old mark]

60. They want the government to continue their already overgenerous

pay and benefits - forever.

mark

[Cha]

61. They want it run into the

ground so they can own everything and run that into the abyss.

They had 8 fooking years.

[Zavulon]

62. Whereas they accuse us of wanting government to run everything with no private enterprise at all.

Just as they are exaggerating in a big way, so is the OP.

[Kber]

63. OB/GYN Practices

[Cresent City Kid]

64. They want the government to dismantle itself

The agencies that are meant to insure food safety, worker safety, or consumer protection were declawed and understaffed from 2001-2009. It was an inside job.

[yurbud]

65. they want the government to run money from your pocket to that of the very wealthy

they don't have an ideology anymore than a con man does.

[ShortnFiery]

66. They're OK with giving The Pentagon endless $$$ to wage war for empire.

:eyes:

[Overseas]

67. Vagina Control. //eom

[Third Doctor]

68. They think

that the government should run wars and that taxpayers should pay for it out of their patriotic duty. That's what they believe. Why and where does not matter and everything else that deals with life in general should be privatized.

[and-justice-for-all]

70. If we lived in a Repuke World, most of us would already be dead..nt

[pnwmom]

71. What you're describing is a Libertarian dream -- and you're right --

that has been the direction (except for "morality" issues) that the GOP has been taking for some time.

[Avalux]

72. The GOP's mission is to undo Roosevelt's middle class.

GOP leaders are greedy fucks who manipulate their followers with an authoritarian style whose pillars are fear and hate - so the people choose against their own best interests. This is fascinating to me, how the GOP is able to do this; much the same way the Nazi party manipulated the German people.

Concentration of wealth, their pockets get line and to hell with the American people. They hated Roosevelt, hated what he was able to accomplish in creating the middle class.

[gauguin57]

73. Faith-based programs of all kinds.

The more money for faith-based programs, the better the Pugs like it.

[Yavin4]

74. Ironically, Privatization Would Lead Directly To Communism

The people that could not afford education, healthcare, police and fire protection, etc. etc. would greatly out-number those that can afford it. Then the people would use the only power that they had, their numbers, to re-take power.

[tabasco]

75. Concentration camps & gas chambers. n/t

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

76. It used to be that the only government-run enterprise that they would ever accept was

the military. And now they don't even want that anymore because they know that they can make more money off of privatization.

It's no longer the Military Industrial Complex; it's amount gutting government, once and for all.

If they cannot make money using the government apparatus, they'll do it through privatization.

They are so extreme that they don't want ANYTHING run by government...not even Veterans Administration. You see how they're now going after the VA. That's the latest talking point. After all these years, suddenly the VA is ineffective. Really?

[IndianaGreen]

77. Government can never be big enough when it comes to the national security establishment

When it comes to social programs, the government is always too big, not matter how small or marginal its size and role happens to be.

[leftofthedial]

78. any agency that funnels tax money into the hands of the top 1% is okay.

[WeDidIt]

79. I can think of two government run programs the GOP wants

1) The bedroom police
2) The execution chambers for LBGT people.

[polichick]

80. They want the gov't to keep supporting the MIC with fake wars. nt