For one time, the governor is honest about his hatred of the government and its support for its destruction – as long as it does not affect for him.
“There are government programs that I would like to see parked or reduce, especially those that do not affect me,” but do not touch the programs he Personally depends on: “But that is like a postal service, yes, we count on it”, Rick Wallace, a retired firefighter in the Nebraska countryside, He said Nebraska examined.
Of course they do. He lives in the type of place where efficiency or savings become standard costs, it is completely tight.
Roger McDonald, Roger McDonald, a local mail holder in Wallace, is approximately 150 miles per day to 334 delivery points. This type of path bleeds money, the long distance and the sporadic population density are part of the cause of the American postal service annual losses. It is also the type of thing that would fade under President Donald Trump’s proposal PrivatizationWhere unbearable roads will inevitably cut, regardless of who left.
But the government is not supposed to be profitable. It is supposed to serve The common goodEven when this good is a small location in the midst of the place.
The liberals have long understood it. We were fine in supporting the rural America – roads, phones lines, mail service, and hospitals – because this is what the common society does.
But on the other hand, the rural governors clarified the same government Maintain their societies. Worse, they distorted people – Americans – who supported these benefits. Now they admit that they just want to finance what affects they.
Well, the rural wide range does not affect me. I have a quick internet – get rid of anyone else. Rural postal network is expensive? It does not affect me, why should I pay for it? All of these infrastructure for the costly phone? Let her rot. Ministry of Agriculture? I am not a farmer, cut everything. Medicaid financing for rural hospitals? I have 5 hospitals within 15 minutes. Rural road maintenance? Let them collapse. Black lung benefits for coal miners? It absorbs to be them. Methael epidemic in rural cities? Let them wander their way out. No one affects me, right?
It’s great, right?
This is the difference between the right and the left. Conservatives start the suffering of people who are not like them – and for this reason they voted for Trump. But liberals? We will feel terrifying if someone seriously introduces the argument you just put. We believe in the basic social commitment to each other – even when it costs us something. especially When something costs us.
Wallace does not give the curse of programs that do not benefit him directly. But we are supposed to spend everything it takes to keep his next mail 6 days a week? This is not how this works.
The social contract is not a selling machine for personal rest; It is a mutual agreement linking a nation of people together, which says that we all draw so that no one – does not matter in their place of life – through cracks. It is a recognition that the government is the tool we use to express collective values, not individual preferences.
When conservatives begin to choose and choose the parts of society that deserve the funding based only on their own needs, they are not only selfish. They break the basis that brings this country together.