What will you say, Monsieur Industriel -- what will you say, disciples of good M. F. Chamans, who has calculated with so much precision how much trade would gain by the burning of Paris, from the number of houses it would be necessary to rebuild?

Bastiat, 1850

Russelville Middle School near Little Rock, Arkansas is taking a lot of heat after listing George W. Bush and Dick Cheney in the top 5 worst people of all time, as #4 and #5, respectively. At the top of the list is Adolf Hitler at #1, Osama bin Laden at #2, and Charles Manson at #3.

After a backlash from Parents and school board members, the list was covered in the yearbooks by a piece of black tape.

Here's the thing:
The problem with the right is that their idea of good government is less government; magic of the market place, government keep your hands off, less tax, less spending.
This makes sense if considered individually, and in a vacuum. But in reality it plays out a little differently, or at least differently from my point of view.

Let me start by issuing my definition of "government": Everything from the president on down, including police and fire departments.

They say less government; Government should just go away, and leave it up to people to decide for themselves (again, I like the idea of being able to decide for myself and everything)… The problem is that if government steps out, who will do the job of making the laws? Unless you'd rather have a lawless state. With that comes no courts, and police have very little to do other than shoot people that they feel shoal deb shot, arrest people they fee should be arrested, and jail those they feel need jailing.
Here's an example of how the government getting out of something has cost us all: War!
We used to have "the greatest armed forces" in the world… Now we have military contracting doing plenty of the work that some within the forces did. They told us that contractors could do it better, they told us companies competing for the contracts could do it cheaper. But the fact is contracting is just as wasteful as it was with the military personnel doing the same thing. There are still humans doing the jobs, therefore the efficiencies of the job will not change.
This all leads to more spending, something that the right is opposed to. So by implementing their ideas, it leads to the opposite effect of their ideas.

This is one of the main reasons why I feel the right is just plain ignorant bunch who have a very large buddy system (read old boys network) that ensures that they and their kind (read whites) get paid.

Along with less government the right want less regulation. Here, I have to agree to a certain point. Now I personally don't have any regulator breathing down my neck, so I have no idea how bad it can get, but I have heard stories enough to know that the regulatory system may need some changes; if a guy wants to build an addition onto their home, and they feel they have the expertise, the know how, and funds to do it.. then let them. Its their home, they can do what they want. But even saying that statement reminds me of the story of the ultra-rich feud that happened in some state where one guy built their home up to a two story, and the folks just up the hill from them had their view of the ocean or lake blocked.
I can definitely see how the guy up the hill would want there to be a regulation against building a home to a certain height. But then the guy lower down would not be abel to "do what he wanted" and that's just unAmerican.
Another thing with regulation: Food, water. Do I have to point out that without regulation, these things will turn in to daft unusable items?
One day a mining company opened up a mine up the hill from the Jones's. The mining company promised jobs to the region. Mr. Jones and many of neighbors were employed by the mining company.
Everything was fine, everyone was happy, and everyone prospered.
Until the deposits started leaching into the groundwater, and the Jones's well was contaminated, then their neighbors water, until finally people started getting sick from drinking the water and bathing in it. Eventually people of the town just below the mine that employed most of the town were too sick to work the mines….
It was that way because greedy self interest idiots did not have any care about what they were doing, did not pay any attention to what they were doing, the town and the workers paid the price for a mining company making a profit.

Back in the day, after changing the oil in his car, my father would send me down to the corner where the sewer drain was to pour it out.
We all know know that this is a problem, and if everyone did it the ocean would look much like the waters in the gulf of mexico after BP gets done with it.
Again, because an idiot didn't know any better, and because he was thinking of nothing more than himself the earth paid a price, and regulation was enacted to prevent people from doing the same. I'm sure the right can agree that this is not a bad regulation as it forces us in the now to think about the future and what kind of world we are leaving behind.

In the area of food regulation is a good thing: A guy opens up a hamburger stand that is a great success and soon the guy is opening up franchises all across America. But soon sales become stagnant; People can only eat some much hamburger. So the guy does some research and finds that he can make his order of hamburger last longer by adding some other products to the meat stuff and grinding it all together. Soon, the guy was saving by not adding any hamburger at all.
Do I have to say it? Do you really think if business (who's main goal is to reap a profit) would not do what ever it takes to make a profit? If so, you have much more trust in people than I do, especially when many of them get together to form a corporation to make profit. That's real when things get out of hand, and go to ridiculous lengths to make a profit; Insurance companies not paying out on claims, internet providers not providing internet, cell phones companies not providing service, vending machine not dispensing chosen products….

So again, less regulation means things will be messed up beyond all compare. Less regulation may mean that fish stocks get completely depleted, so that in the future people will say "what's fish?" or "they sure ate a lot of fish back in the day". We might not have any real wildlife left if it weren't for regulations against hunting wild animals. How many bears would there be if any guy with a rifle had one in his trophy room? "Daddy, what is that thing on the California state flag?" "Oh, that's a bear. They're all gone now and we haven't got around to changing the flag yet."

Less regulation is one of the reasons for the latest massive depression.. isn't it? Nobody was paying attention to what the banks were doing, but everybody was super happy that they were reporting super profits… until in the end government was called on to bail the f*#ks out.

Magic of the market place: See note above.

Less Taxes: This should mean that people pay less in income tax, sales tax, and any other tax not mentioned here. Except that without taxation we have nothing: No police, no fire, no ambulance, no army, no navy, no air force and no marines. Oh, but then how are the contracting job creators going to get paid?
Sorry, but as much as I dislike paying taxes, I'd like the consequences of not paying taxes much less; every day living in fear of my fellow man, wild west style.

Less Spending: Really, this only counts when human beings are involved, because we know what it means when people (read corporations) are involved. That's when money is no object and spending is without limits. Any social program must give way to spending on the policing of the very same people the social program was assisting because after all…. they may turn to crime in order to survive.
More social spending and education, less spending on prisons, policing, and corporate profits.


These are just a few of the big picture items that I find incredibly ignorant with the right. I cannot see how some would say no to helping out other human beings, while paying form a war that was started for fraudulent reasons against the unending threat of terror.