I apologize if I use a lot of plumbing analogies, but I was in the business for so long that it always seems to leech into my vernacular.
Let's say one day you wake up one morning to get ready for the day and while performing your bathroom duties, you realize that the toilet is not flushing properly. You call a plumber who meets you later that evening to give you an estimate of repairing the toilet. After examining the commode, he offers you the following explanation on what needs to be accomplished.
"Glenn, firstly let me begin by saying that I am glad you called me. I know how to solve your plumbing problem and I want to be the plumber that works in your home. With that being said I have to tell you that I don't believe in modern 20th century Plumbing. Sure it's worked for you up until this point, but now the toilet doesn't work and although I could replace it with something better and little more efficient, ultimately it may break again somewhere down the road and then your children may have the burden of replacing this toilet again. Think about all the pipes and pipe fittings in the walls and floors of your home. There's no guarantee that one or maybe all of these pipe fittings may fail and you could have water or even fecal matter flowing into your home. Remember the old days? Our grandparents would never have stood to have shit filled pipes in their homes!! They shit and pissed outside where shit and piss belongs and they did it like good Christians! I believe that if Thomas Jefferson were here today, he would agree that it would be Un-American to have pipes filled with shit and piss flowing in the walls of a citizen's home! Don't listen to these progressive plumbers with all their safe septic systems and sanitary mumbo jumbo. As an a experienced plumber I must recommend that we remove all the plumbing from the home. Now it may be very difficult and expensive to do this, so I am going to sub this work out to another company that will use inexpensive immigrant labor to do it because although I am the plumber that you hired I feel that someone else could do it better than I can. After this has been accomplished I have another friend...I mean contractor that will work with you to install an outhouse in the yard. You can pay me for this service than I will take my fairly large cut and pass it along to this other builder who will in turn sub it out to another company who will buy the outhouse from from a Chinese company owned by another good friend err....contractor, who will then install the outhouse. After the outhouse is installed, I will have another company remove all the shit and piss from the outhouse, at your cost of course. And by removing it I mean pump it into the creek behind your house.....you know the one the supplies water into your drinking water system. Think of all the money that you will ultimately save......maybe, if nothing goes wrong. And remember, after all this work is done I will be out of business.
Welcome to the GOP and Tea- Party platform! This bizarre way of running the government began in earnest with Saint Ronald Reagan. He made such famous statements as "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'" and "Government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem." These pearls of wisdom are past down to all the Republican and Tea Party candidates who in turn run on a platform of "Government can't work, so Vote for me so I can prove it to you!"
This is the Conservative Mantra spewed forth by so many Palinesque hybrid dimwits. Progressivism is what made our country great not conservatism. The Progressive movement of the early 20th century was responsible for Women's suffrage, regulation of child labor, Americanization of Immigrants and the expansion of public schools. Educated men like John Dewey led the fight for these great advances in our culture. New Deal democratic socialism sealed the deal on our country's greatness by creating the Federal Housing Administration, The Public Works Administration, The Social Security Act and The Tennessee Valley Authority. By the way, big business and conservatives fought against all these things. Why? The same reason that conservative and Tea Party people fight against health care and art funding and gay rights. Because conservatives can't get filthy rich if the government takes over or regulates things that should be basic rights for everyone.
Am I saying that government is infallible and the answer to all our nation's ills? Of course not. That's because I am not a narrow-minded conservative who sees the world in a pure sense of Black and White, Good and Evil and Right and Wrong. Are there scumbags milking the welfare and unemployment system? Are their people filing bogus law suits that are wasting the court's time and costing the taxpayer money? Of course! There always will be, but these issues are paled when compared to scams and skulduggery that large national and multi-national corporations are perpetrating on not only American citizens but on the global community. The conservative politician's answer is always and will always be to limit the power of everyday people by creating laws to prohibit the citizen from taking lawful action against these corporate entities.
Big Businesses and banks care about one thing and one thing only. PROFITS. They do not care about America or it's citizens. They do not care about democracy, in fact they despise it. They do not care about work conditions for their employees. They do not care about the health of their employees. They do not care if they close the plant in you town that will cost you your job and destroy the community that you live in. Not if they can re-open it Malaysia where they can hire 9 year old girls for a dollar a day. These same corporations now own all of the American media outlets and have hoodwinked a large part of the citizenry into thinking that health care and social programs that are meant to assist everyone are part of a vast Marxist conspiracy led by a Muslim communist president out to destroy America.
Does our country have a stopped up toilet, some leaky faucets and few busted pipes? We sure do. We need some experienced plumbers who understand how these things work so we can make these repairs correctly and effectively. We don't need moronic handymen who have no experience and who will take our money and make us go outside in the cold night to piss and shit in a shack out by the garage.
