The Government Party

Subject: txt 2010 libs sclm lbrty bbro -
At the local, state and federal level, there are 19 million to 20 million government employees. And if one takes only Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps and earned income tax credits, we are talking of scores of millions who depend on government checks for the necessities of their daily life.

These vast armies of voters — these tens of millions of government employees and scores of millions of government beneficiaries — are the big battalions of the Party of Government. They provide implacable resistance to any party that pledges to cut or curtail government. For they are fighting for their livelihood... [snip]

Democrats are the Party of Government. They feed it, and it feeds them.

The larger government grows, the more agencies that are created, the more bureaucrats who are hired, the more people who become beneficiaries, the more deeply entrenched in power the Party of Government becomes...

[And that's the game plan in a nutshell: in a democracy, once societal consumers outnumber contributors they've the voting power to force continued consumption of wealth until, like any parasite, the host is consumed - as has been the cased of every failed socialistic society in history.

We are, right now, at the 50% threshold (government employees and social program, including tax 'credit' recipients combined) - the passage of either current government run health care proposal alone would irrevocably tip the scale - and why the Dems are hell-bent on passing one regardless of obvious citizen sentiment.]

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