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What is ideology?
March 14,
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There are a few points that no one is mentioning. And the people you mention, the Tea Party and the Liberty movement have allowed the incumbents to determine the scope of the debate and limit it to a discussion of mindlessly undefined "small government."
The small government portrayed will give us a primitive village as portrayed in the Planet of the Apes movies. It would never build a Starship Enterprise.
In your editorial you label Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and I presume you would include welfare as "mandatory funding." The reality is that many only went on these programs because their jobs were exported from the United States either through outsourcing, relocation of production, and importing. They used to be taxpayers. And had they had a choice that "mandatory" funding would be less, and more people would share the burden of paying it.
Instead of investing in new discoveries and our own infrastructure we are handing our money to other countries of dubious friendliness by the hundreds of millions.
What is ideology? And what is common sense? We have a number of people here who want to be the big fish. And they are willing to make the pond smaller to accomplish this. That is their ideology.
Robert Joseph Underwood
Springfield
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