“I don’t want to eliminate government. I want to shrink it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it.”–Grover Norquist, current Republican “thinker”/former Confederate soldier. Over and over again, we’ve been told by Republicans that government is inefficient, wasteful, harmful, dangerous, a thief, and pretty much everything but a sex offender. [I’m just waiting for the day Glenn Beck accuses government of rape.] They have no respect for government, want to eliminate it, get rid of government jobs, do away with social spending, and completely abolish taxes.
So basically they’d love to take America back to the Mayflower but I’ve got a much simpler solution. It came to me recently that instead of trying to force America into something it’s not, they can merely immigrate. And so the “small government” paradise of Somalia beckons.
Just think about it. Somalia has no taxes, no real social spending, extremely lax gun control, no welfare paid for off the backs of the rich (and by rich I mean warlords who steal the welfare provided by other countries), no central government, and no regulations (a 12 year old can and will murder you).
Best of all: there they could try out privatized schools/cops/armies/everything. Instead of continuing to strangle funding for the US education system or abolish medicare/medicaid, they could simply open up for-profit schools and hospitals in Somalia!
So, the next time a Republican chants about ending social spending AND paradoxically lowering taxes to lower the deficit, just present them with a better plan: moving. It could be Somalia or Yemen or Pakistan or Congo, but wherever they go it’s better than here…for us, not necessarily for them. However, if they stay here and continue to try to shape America into a third world, small government hellhole because they lack basic respect for government, taxes, gov. jobs, and a high standard of living, it’s bad for ALL of us.
Well said. Why change the greatest country in the world where everyone wants to go? If you don’t like the country LEAVE and take your tea bags with you.
We shouldn’t even give them the option ~ lets just deport them.