Republican Rhetorical Disconnect

What's wrong with these three sentences:

1. "We need businesses to start hiring and investing again."
2. "We should run government more like a business."
3. "During a recession, the people have to tighten their belts, so government should too."

That's right, they are wildly inconsistent.

During this recession, businesses are sitting on the sidelines. The problem is that businesses are tightening their belts: they are not hiring or investing. In order to get the economy going again, somebody needs to start hiring and investing. Money is cheap: interest rates are next to zero, so now is the time to invest. But nothing is happening in the private sector.

We want business to start hiring and investing, not to lay off more people. And, there are many who want to run government like a business. Yet, rather than advocating government hiring and investing, which would be consistent with that desire, they preach government tightening its belt -- i.e. lay off more people.

It is so obviously inconsistent an argument that it is safe to say nobody who says those three things actually believes them. They are liars and frauds. And they are about to take over Congress.

Seems to me, much of the south and the mid-west has lost touch with reality. They hunker down with guns and booze, and vote themselves out of existence. Sad.

Who gets hurt when Republicans run Congress? Not the Bankers, not the CEOs, not the Oil Men or the insurance industry, and not the Corporate Lawyers. No, it is the little guy that gets hurt, every time. Yet the "little guy" in the south and the mid-west votes Republican, not as the result of honest thinking -- if they can't see the flaw in those three statements above, they aren't thinking honestly -- but out of some tribalist rage. Sad indeed.