So we keep hearing how Republicans are all for “small government”, right? And there are enough idiot losers out there to believe that shit. So the idiot losers go and elect the “small government” Rauner as the governor of Illinois. And what does the “small government” Rauner do the second he gets into office? Right you are, he starts spending even more of taxpayers’ money in a broke state on bureaucrats:
Bruce Rauner keeps calling for “shared sacrifice” to get Illinois out of its huge financial hole, but his message sounds a tad hypocritical now that we know the sacrifices don’t apply to his staff.
Nine of his top 10 staffers are being paid more than their counterparts in Gov. Pat Quinn’s office – anywhere from 11 percent to 94 percent more. In dollars, it’s an extra $380,000 for those positions.
Up to 94% more! If this isn’t an egregious case of governmental waste, I don’t know what is.
I find it unbelievable that anybody voted for this stupid lying crook.
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Rest assured that rank and file civil servants or government employees are not getting these kinds of raises (except maybe police). His staffers get excluded from “small government” rhetoric because they work for him directly.
Obviously “small government” is code that has nothing to do with the size or the scope of the government.
Classic Lee Atwater quote that explains much of American politics: Lee Atwater on the Southern Strategy
Lee Atwater was an advisor to Reagan, ran Bush Elder’s presidential campaign and was the head of the RNC.
You start out in 1954 by saying, “Nigger, nigger, nigger.” By 1968 you can’t say “nigger” — that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states’ rights and all that stuff. You’re getting so abstract now [that] you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I’m not saying that. But I’m saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me — because obviously sitting around saying, “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “Nigger, nigger.”
Here’s the audio for the same quote
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