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Monday, January 3, 2011

Democurmudgeon: The Plan: Create a Desperate Public first, than give everything else to the private sector.

Democurmudgeon: The Plan: Create a Desperate Public first, than give everything else to the private sector.

The Plan: Create a Desperate Public first, than give everything else to the private sector.

Jack Lohman wrote this warning about the consequences of the Republican rush to privatize "Big Government."
There’s another ploy coming to a theater near you! They’ve been preparing the soil and soon they’ll spring it on us.
It’s called privatizing.
It’s always the same false claim: Private is more efficient than public. The public unions are impossible to work with, they’ll say, and we have a corporation that can save us dollars.
Rarely is that true, especially after they add all of the exorbitant salaries, bonuses, shareholder

Republicans; if tax cuts create bigger deficits, cut spending. Does that make sense to you?


The idea is a simple one, as explained by Ezra Klein:
“In the House, the rules are being changed to make increasing the deficit through tax cuts easier, and decreasing the deficit through tax increases harder.”
So if the Republicans make things economically worse with tax cuts, they can continue to complain about government spending, while never having to solve the problem or be accountable. Put another way:
According to the new regulations, tax increases can no longer offset new spending