{"id":1641,"date":"2013-02-06T11:40:21","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T11:40:21","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-02-06T11:40:21","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T11:40:21","slug":"must-destroy-republican-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/franklycurious.com\/wp\/2013\/02\/06\/must-destroy-republican-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Must Destroy Republican Party"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"USPS\"The same day that House Republicans are proposing to save $600 billion in defense spending by cutting 10% of all federal jobs<\/a>, the United States Postal Service announces that it is cutting delivery of first class mail<\/a> on Saturdays. These are linked together. You can file them under “stupid things we do because Republicans are crazy.” Let’s look briefly at what this all means.<\/p>\n

The Postal Service cut has been a long time in coming. Back in 2006, during the lame duck after the Republicans lost control of the House and Senate, the Republicans passed a poison pill that required the Postal Service to pre-fund their retirement program. This is a requirement that no other business has and was put in place because, well, Republicans are evil. That really is what this all comes down to. The Republicans want to kill the Postal Service. Sure, there is the added benefit of helping out our corporate overlords at UPS and FedEx. But it is mostly about trying to destroy anything the government does well. See: Republicans just know that the government can’t do anything well. That’s why government programs like the Post Service (which is in the Constitution that they supposedly love so much) and Medicare and Social Security must be destroyed. If reality doesn’t conform to your ideology, change reality, because your ideology could not possibly be wrong!<\/i><\/p>\n

Thankfully, the stupid Republican idea of cutting 10% of all federal jobs is not going to happen. But note: 36% of all federal jobs are military jobs. The Republican proposal is not yet available, but we can assume they are not<\/i> calling for a reduction in that<\/i> part of the labor force. Without that part of the federal workforce, there are roughly three million federal employees. So they are calling for eliminating 300,000 jobs. Plus all the jobs that would be lost via economic feedbacks. Can you say, “instant recession”? I suspect the Republicans can’t. They would have to claim that no jobs are lost, because they also claim that the government doesn’t create jobs. Therefore: why not fire them all? No one will lose a job by their logic.<\/p>\n

I feel like a pinball these days regarding my thinking about the Republicans. Are they stupid? Yes, many of them are. Are they evil? Yes, most of them are. But more than anything, they are spoiled brats. They are the five year old at a family gathering who is going to ruin everything because he can’t get his way. John Boehner was lying when he said that Obama was trying to destroy the Republican Party. But I think he was onto something. We need to destroy the Republican Party. Then, the Democratic Party can split into a somewhat reasonable conservative party and an actual liberal party. The Republican Party is far worse than useless. And if we allow them, they will destroy the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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