There’s a realm of politics that comes out in the ease of a type of Populist sounding “Common Sense” political gimmick — ideas that are meant to be easily understood memes, and not really programmatic solutions to anything.\u00c2\u00a0 Think Sarah Palin and “I sold it on ebay”.<\/p>\n
They are coming out<\/p>\n
I.\u00c2\u00a0 Tim Pawlenty and the “Google Test”<\/a>, in his “Better Deal”:<\/p>\n Pawlenty would in turn drastically cut spending, including some possible cuts or privatizations\/eliminations of services that people have taken for granted. “Now there’s some obvious targets. We can start by what I call ‘The Google Test.’ If you can find a service or a good available on Google, or the Internet, then the federal government probably doesn’t need to be providing that good or service,” said Pawlenty. “The post office, the government printing office, Amtrak, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and others, were all built for a time in our country and a different chapter in our economy, when the private sector\u00c2\u00a0didn’t adequately provide those services. But that’s no longer the case.”<\/em><\/p>\n I am pretty sure you can find mercenaries on the Internet, meaning Pawlenty would have us do away with the Military.\u00c2\u00a0 “But that is not what Tim Pawlenty meant”.\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t even know how to go about explaining the absurdity of this statement — It does seem like the government needs to restructure the model of the Post Office (though it is of such a slight program that it is hard for me to figure how it’d be on my political radar — ie: if a politician harps on it, I’d wonder about their Priorities.)\u00c2\u00a0 We get a sense in Pawlenty’s simplistic framework of the shifting Creeping standard of a\u00c2\u00a0 ‘Creeping Socialism‘ <\/em>.” II.\u00c2\u00a0 Herman Cain and the Great Wall of China<\/a>.<\/p>\n “I just got back from China. Ever heard of the Great Wall of China? It looks pretty sturdy. And that sucker is real high. I think we can build one if we want to! We have put a man on the moon, we can build a fence! Now, my fence might be part Great Wall and part electrical technology…It will be a twenty foot wall, barbed wire, electrified on the top, and on this side of the fence, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll have that moat that President Obama talked about. And I would put those alligators in that moat!”<\/p>\n Thank you, Pat Buchanan.\u00c2\u00a0 No, Herman Cain’s campaign isn’t going anywhere — though, it’ll excite some “Tea Party”ers in the meantime.
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\nAlso, isn’t that a rather expensive project — something which would definitely dwarf the supposed “Illegal Immigrations taking up services” budget?<\/p>\n