Obama's Many Successes Come Without Much Private Sector Input

Republicans don't want government to work at all.
Since Ronald Reagan's treacherous assertion that "Government is The Problem,"
the Republican definition of success has been "The Failure of Government."

As an alternative, Republicans advocate total surrender to The Invisible Hand.

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"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; 
the rich have always objected to being governed at all."
G.K.Chesterton
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"You’ve got that eternal idiotic idea that if anarchy came it would come from the poor. Why should it? The poor have been rebels, but they have never been anarchists; they have more interest than anyone else in there being some decent government. The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn’t; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. Aristocrats were always anarchists."

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) 

English journalist and writer

The Man Who Was Thursday (1908)

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"For one thing, there's no reason to reinforce the conservative frame about the inferiority of the public sector. It's wrong and it skews public attitudes in an unproductive direction. For another, looking back over the last five years, some of the Obama administration's most impressive displays of competence - managing Recovery Act investments, overseeing the rescue of the American automotive industry, responding effectively to natural disasters and terrorist threats, etc. - came without much of a role for private-sector "effectiveness."" Steve Benen in MSBNC.

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"Politics and Economics: The 101 Courses You Wish You Had"

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