"John D. Giorgis" wrote: > > I was not providing a list of policies that you would agree with. > Rather, David Brin made the following pretty baseless assertion: > > >That the current GOP is dominated by > >kleptocratic frat boys with NO other agenda but > >stealing 4 TRILLION DOLLARS from our grandchildren. > >You will find NO policy of theirs that violates this > >fundamental principle. Not one. > > I provided the above list of policies, all of which > violate that so-called "fundamental principle." Say > what you will about whether or not you agree with them, > but these policies certainly do not fit David Brin's > partisan mockery of Republican Party that I quoted above. >
> No Child Left Behind > Faith-Based Initiatives > AIDS Fund > Partial-Birth Abortion Ban > Promotion of Abstinence-Based Education > School Vouchers for DC How, exactly do they violate kleptocratic principles? They do not make public spending any more accountable or transparent. They do not actually do anything more than the status quo toward maintaining a diamond-shaped distribution of wealth. Those are some of the things to look for when presenting claims that the current administration is really not interested in draining large amounts of wealth from the country into their own and their friends pockets. Social issues such as abortion and abstinence education do not impact that goal at all, Faith-Based initiatives could be shown to reduce transparency & accountability, The AIDS fund, even if it were funded properly, would not harm a kleptocratic agenda, and school vouchers basically amount to a subsidized discount for those who already find the means to pay private school tuition for their children. they do nothing to make (we assume high performing) private schools any more likely to admit students from poor families than before vouchers, and could be shown to add weight to the argument that the people with wealth and power are trying to steal from those without. -- Matt slowly caching up, only 1141 unread Brin-L messages to go! _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
