[cia-drugs] THOMAS FRANK : G.O.P. Corruption? Bring In the Conservatives & New War Today?

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THOMAS FRANK : G.O.P. Corruption? Bring In the Conservatives & New War Today?By  THOMAS FRANK - The New York Times - Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2006   Frank: G.O.P. Corruption - Thomas Frank is the author, most recently, of “What’s the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America.’’ He is a guest columnist during August. - What happens when the machinery of the state falls into the hands of people who laugh at the function for which it was designed? - PLUS: Fox News: Iran May 'Pull Nuclear Trigger' Today - PLUS: Jet with 171 on board crashes in Ukraine & More    GUEST COLUMNIST G.O.P. Corruption? Bring In the Conservatives. By THOMAS FRANK Published: August 22, 2006 In the lexicon of American business, “cynicism” means doubt
 about the benevolence of market forces, and it is a vice of special destructiveness. Those who live or work in Washington, however, know another variant of cynicism, a fruitful one, a munificent one, a cynicism that is, in fact, the health of the conservative state. The object of this form of cynicism is “government,” whose helpful or liberating possibilities are to be derided whenever the opportunity presents. Remember how President Reagan claimed to find terror in the phrase, “I’m from the government and I’m here to help”? Or how the humorist P. J. O’Rourke won fame by declaring that even the proceedings of a New England town meeting were a form of thievery? The true scoffer demands sterner stuff, though, and in the cold light of economic science he can see that government is not merely susceptible to corruption; government is corruption, a vile profaning of the market-most-holy in which some groups contrive to swipe the property of other groups
 via taxation and regulation. Politicians use the threat of legislation to extort bribes from industry, and even federal quality standards — pure food and so on — are tantamount to theft, since by certifying that any product in a given field won’t kill you, they nullify the reputations for quality and goodness that individual companies in the field have built up at great expense over the years. Continued: http://mparent7777.livejournal.com/11554311.html Plamegate: Calendars show Armitage met reporter http://mparent7777.livejournal.com/11554901.html Romanian oil firm says rig attacked by Iran http://mparent7777.livejournal.com/11556493.html Jet with 171 on board crashes in
 Ukraine http://mparent7777.livejournal.com/11559542.html Fox News: Iran May 'Pull Nuclear Trigger' Today http://mparent7777.livejournal.com/11557799.html Today's Newswire http://mparent7777.livejournal.com/2006/08/22/                                               MARC PARENT   CRIMES AND CORRUPTIONS OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER NEWS  http://mparent7777.livejournal.com/   http://www.tpmcafe.com/blog/14409  http://www.dailykos.com/user/ccnwon           
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