Here's my blog. It is a series of questions that I had after listening to Republicans talk about big government and getting tired of listening to Rush Limbaugh all weekend long. I think, if Republicans want to start over, they should be answering these questions instead of listening and apologizing to a psychopath.
1. What is government for? Is it to be a chaperone for big businesses, issuing forth golden parachutes, and allowing them to take jobs overseas with the tax cuts given them by the federal government? Is government strictly an imperialistic millitary machine that imposes the culture of America on Third World countries whenever we need raw materials and cheap labor to fund our capitalistic ventures? What is government for?
2. What is socialism? Is it socialism or welfare when power is placed back in the hand of the laborer? What is it called when corporations and the ushers of capitalism strip power away from the hands of workers/consumers that must make and consume their products? Why isn't it socialism or welfare when the government gives individuals (corporations are often taxed as "individuals") taxpayer dollars to go out and buy themselves luxury planes and trips to expensive spas? Why aren't these people labeled "welfare queens and kings?" Aren't they, too, living irresponsibly, jeapordizing the jobs and futures of others, and then asking for a handout from the government? I ask again, what is government for?
3. Does government exist solely to help friends of the government become very wealthy from the deaths of our soldiers by passing out no-bid contracts to inept millitary contractors? Is it there to place the lives of our precious soldiers at stake to enrich people whose children will probably never see the battle field? What is government for?
Somebody, answer this for me. Rush Limbaugh and his party has not answered it, even though they are quite deft at telling a starving population what government is not for.
