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Originally Posted by Vexx
The anti-FEMA remarks are essentially a GOP continuation of the "privatization of government" (transfer of functionality into private for-profit hands, only a few hands btw). The Bush Administration spent eight years doing this to a number of government agencies and its been so profitable for a few so those few want more. Problem is, they also cripple oversight - so the American taxpayer loses oversight/accountability of the function. So the FDA is unable to monitor food and drugs, the Interior Department simply hands over assets to extractive industry without managing for the long term, etc.
Privatization of some functions isn't a bad thing ... (like NASA turning non-R&D activities over to the private sector), but this is basically theft of the General Fund to pad the pockets of a few with a degradation of results.
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B-but, we can't vote for those liberal democrats. What about big government? I don't like that there isn't a public option for Obamacare!
Nevermind that the GOP made sure that was the case.
Funny how people go nuts about the democrat's big government (the GOP has it's own kind of big government policies, I might add), but they don't care about - or don't even know about - the privitization of the government.
