Be that is it may, for good or ill it could hardly be otherwise. This republic was founded on the notion that those who govern do so with the consent of the governed. Even so, it is a concept apparently lost on the folk. The folk are drifting.Tea Partiers, liberterians and the extreme right treat “government” as a noun----a reviled object---distant from themselves. Notwithstanding, it is an extension or beit an alter-ego of the very people who loathe it. Perhaps “government” is simply a form of self-loathing.
“If there is an overarching theme of election 2010, it is the question of how big the government should be and how far it should reach into people's lives.
Americans have a more negative view of government today than they did a decade ago, or even a few years ago. Most say it focuses on the wrong things and lack confidence that it can solve big domestic problems…..
But ask people what they expect the government to do for themselves and their families, and a more complicated picture emerges.
A new study by The Washington Post, the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and Harvard University shows that most Americans who say they want more limited government also call Social Security and Medicare "very important." They want Washington to be involved in schools and to help reduce poverty. Nearly half want the government to maintain a role in regulating health care.”[emphasis added]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/09/AR2010100903308.html?wpisrc=nl_headline
Put another way, the more lucid understand that there is no such a thing as a “free market.” Left to natural selection or survival of the fittest economics is an ugly, lop-sided thing.
Government or governance when in the hands of mature, unselfish, principled individuals serves to protect the weak from the strong and to share the wealth. Do not misunderstand the wealthy will always be wealthy. It just doesn’t have to be obscenely so. Nor does it mean that wealth should insulate the wealthy from paying a proportionate tax to the very system that made conditions possible for them to attain that wealth---Ayn Rand notwithstanding….
From Texas Red: a cratered landscape of prisons, deplorable apartheid public education, lack of healthcare and politicians and majority population intent on keeping it that way…
Hasta Siempre,
More:
Nico Lahood for (Bexar County) District Attorney
http://www.facebook.com/NicoLaHoodforDA?ref=ts
Bexar County Candidates at a glance
http://mysapolitics.com/election.php/2010/01/06/current-election-candidates-list-2010
DA Reed launches attack ads against political opponent (Nico Lahood)
http://www.woai.com/content/troubleshooters/story/DA-Reed-launches-attack-ads-against-political/vvcteL6A2kOZCu8r6zwSSA.cspx
…anyway in Texas Red where most Democrats are GOPers in Democrat clothing would it matter?
Police union alone in supporting Reed
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/politics/police_union_alone_in_supporting_reed_104532454.html
From two peas in a pod?Wow, what a surprise…….
Former SA Mayor (Ed Garza) Endorses Perry
http://www.ksat.com/politics/25351176/detail.html
expected but repugnant from Texas Red lapdogs, “democrats?” hardly; sellouts, you bet…..
Mexican American Legislative Caucus member raising eyebrows with ad
AUSTIN —“We have to crack down on illegal immigrants who break our laws, escape unpunished and take jobs away from Texans.”
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/mexican_american_legislative_caucus_member_raising_eyebrows_with_ad_104673514.html
Beyond the tea party: What Americans really think of government
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/09/AR2010100903308.html?wpisrc=nl_headline
being fair and balanced and all guess that’ll be another $1M to Demo Govs?
Fox donates $1 million to GOP governors
http://www.ajc.com/news/fox-donates-1-million-593985.html
Elections 2010: “the Beast” , the money, the power and the glory……
http://robertruiz-respublica.blogspot.com/2010/10/elections-2010-beast-money-power-and.html
Texas Red: a cratered landscape of prisons, deplorable apartheid public education, lack of healthcare and politicians and majority population intent on keeping it that way
http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-18764-San-Antonio-Public-Policy-Examiner~y2009m10d4-Texas-Red-a-cratered-landscape-of-prisons-deplorable-public-education-lack-of-healthcare-and-poli
https://feed.examiner.com/examiner/admin/EntryController.cfm?action=list&data=QVRhaWVRZnJJR3hLRmFjT2t6NWhiZz09#
Essay: Money in Washington
Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity
www.amazon.com/Good-Capitalism-Economics-Growth-Prosperity/dp/0300158327/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1285203922&sr=1-1
13 Bankers
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307379051
Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer--and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class
http://www.amazon.com/Winner-Take-All-Politics-Washington-Richer-Turned/dp/1416588698
Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future
http://www.amazon.com/Aftershock-Next-Economy-Americas-Future/dp/0307592812/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1285922323&sr=1-1
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