There's little more pathetic than someone saying "read up on _____" in an internet flame war when they really mean "Google _____, like I did once." You are a halfwit with a graphic design degree and an over inflated sense of your intellect because you're such a fucking tard that you can't actually assess what a tard you are. You are your very own epistemology of stupid.
[i]I also don't really consider most ytmnd users to be inferior[/i]...<br /> <br />Of course you don't. Because you [u]can't[/u]! You are, despite your over-inflated sense of self, quite inferior. That's precisely why it's so fucking funny watching you bloviate on some topic about which you know nothing more than what was written on a website or two. That's why other users here troll you into making as ass of yourself over and over and over again. You really are just the middle aged man version of that Flameman kid. And the best part is that you are so prideful and so incapable of introspection and self critique you'll likely never be able to see it, much less admit it. And in the meantime, you just keep on flailing around like a special ed kid in a helmet, bouncing off the walls of the internet for the amusement of a snarkily giggling public. Keep dancing, monkeyboy! Keep entertaining us, madDoge!
Also, Chomsky's solution to shrink the state and make it dead by making it grow bigger and bigger and making more people dependent on its services might actually work for the same reason if you inflate a balloon too much, it will pop.
I am sympathetic to this objection. A lot of people would agree with you, including some who are recognized as intelligent.<br /><br />However, I am afraid this is an oversimplification.<br /><br />You imply that the 1950s and 1960s because all the New Deal policies were retained. But also during that time, Truman had also reduced government spending as well as the top tax rate. Eisenhower reduced it slightly as well, as did JFK.<br /><br />Now, while most of the New Deal programs and polcies were in effect during the 1970s, there was also a great recession during the 1970s. The top tax rate had not yet fallen. People had a difficult time buying gas. Food prices were rising. The official liberal policy of adding inflation seemed to have no effect. A term came about during the 1970s called "stagflation". Meaning that in spite of the federal reserve providing more money (the sort of thing that people like Paul Krugman recommend), there was still economic stagnation.<br /><br />Was this Reagan's fault? He did not even start office until January of 1981. But somehow you portray the times prior to him as an economic paradise.<br /><br />You also accused Reagan of cutitng the New Deal programs. To be fair, you are not the first to make this accusation. But the fact is, not a single New Deal program was cut during the Reagan administration. In fact, domestic federal spending was actually increased from 1981 to the end of his term in 1988.<br /><br />http://www.nationaljournal.com/interactive-graphic-budget-throu<br />gh-history-20110214?mrefid=site_search<br /><br />Clearly, you were trying to imply that Reagan had cut government and then sent the country into the shitter. But the problem is that Reagan had done no such thing.