...and that now we need to strip out all of the greed meisters, warmongers and religious nuts and punish them, I think we will show that a government of, by and for the people will be restored.
The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.' ---
Ronald Reagan, 40th president of US (1911 - 2004)
"My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years," he says, "to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub." ----
Grover Norquist The same way the conservatives weakened the power of impeachment as a tool to remove them from office when it is sorely needed, they have deliberately spent the last 30 years destroying the people's trust in their government's ability to provided for the well-being of its citizens.
Now, we must forcibly remove these people from the levers of power and banish them from our government once and for all, prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law for their criminal acts. Then, we will allow those who have the security, health, education and economic stability of our nation's people ----ALL of the people--- as the top priority, to restore our governmental structure and faith in its ability to lead.
And ONLY THEN, we will restore faith in our government.
"The domination of special interests, the domination of lobbyists, the loss of a civic culture in Washington among public
has led not only to well-known disasters, like the mismanagement of the Katrina situation, but quiet disasters, where you've got entire agencies that have been hollowed out and you've got political appointees who aren't concerned with the mission of those organizations," Obama said. "So we've got to transform Washington and we've got to do some house cleaning... part of my job, I think, as president, is to make government cool again." ---Barack Obama
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