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Old 09-21-2010, 10:53 AM   #57 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by dogzilla View Post
Small government? Really? Even after Obama presided over some of the largest expansions of govenment services and spending in history?
That's an interesting fiction.

We've been living in a time of smaller government for a long time now. When you compare the United States to other industrialized nations, our government is actually quite small (except for defense, of course). This idea that we need even smaller government is nothing but a cover for increasing corporate control, regardless of whether not the people clamoring for smaller government know it or not.
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I don't think we really have a small government either. Both Bush and Obama have expanded the size of our government all while fighting wars on two fronts to boot. Hell I don't think we've had a small efficient federal government in the better part of 200 years now.
It's small compared to other nations.
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