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In reply to the discussion: I'm not a "small government" person. [View all]meow2u3
(24,761 posts)Allow me to decode the real meaning of "small government": its working definition is "economic license for the superrich; serfdom for the 99%." Anyone who tells you different is trying to con you into acting against your rightful self-interest, just as the fat cats scammed the middle class into thinking they could become rich by voting repuke, accepting longer hours for less pay, and allowing the boss to ship their jobs off to Third World sweatshops, such as China, Vietnam, India, Myanmar, etc. The only rewards they got for following the small government propaganda were either pay cuts or layoffs, home foreclosure and/or eviction, and a rapid descent into poverty or near poverty.
These are the same "small government" conservatives who want "big government" when it comes to intruding into people's private lives and personal decisions.
What we should be discussing has nothing to do with the size of government and everything to do with its quality. In other words, we should be debating good government, which does the will of the people, versus bad government, which sells out to the highest bidder.
I'm not a small government person. I'm a proponent of good government, even if it means politicians must miraculously grow the spine, guts, and gonads to bite the hands Big Business and their hired goons, i.e., paid lobbyists, that feed them, at the risk of losing their political careers.