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Yeah. I know the arrow is supposed to point the other way.
But that’s the Republican equation.
Witness this column from the Guardian:
There’s much more at the link, but I didn’t want to waste any more electrons on it.
The author leaves out what necessitated this budget: decades of misgovernance under Republican Economic Theory, which, from passing Prop. 13 to requiring a super-majority to pass a state budget, has left California virtually ungovernable.
He left out that, the day before the budget was passed, California was shutting down. And what is government? It’s not Nyarlothotep, though it’s seldom perfect, just as you and I are seldom perfect.
It’s police, fire fighters, food and housing inspectors, persons who serve the public (and, by and large, persons who, unlike bankers, don’t get bonuses for failure). Government is the engine that makes civilized society possible.
Republicans don’t like government, therefore they must not li–oh, never mind.
