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Yes, this is the GOP playbook in a nutshell. 1. Rail against the idea that any social program can work, or that the government can do a good job administering
by kelnos 2y ago
Yes, this is the GOP playbook in a nutshell.
1. Rail against the idea that any social program can work, or that the government can do a good job administering it.
2. Fight for amendments to bills around it that reduce its funding or scope in key, critical ways.
3. Let the new thing fail, because you crippled the bill that authorized it.
4. Crow about how you were right all along, that government can't do this or that, and that these social programs are doomed to fail.
- hnlmorg 2y ago5. Then outsource that government work to private firms, preferably ones run by your friends and/or lobbyists, who are both more expensive and yet do a worse job too.
- const_cast 2y ago6. (Optional) after decades of the failures of the private sector, re-nationalize the industry and take huge losses. Loop back to step 1 in 5 years.