... The "big trends" in world history are going our way. The American way of life and doing business is spreading at an amazing rate around the world and throughout our country, as entrepreneurs create new companies and new value every day. The people, in general, "get it."
It is the politicians who don't. In fact, to a great degree the very temperament that makes somebody likely to run for office makes them an unlikely candidate for shrinking government. It is often, even usually, that it is a desire for power that motivates candidates. It is the need to limit government power that lies at the root of the conservative insight.
-- David Strom, townhall.com, 10/24/07
Friday, November 16, 2007
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Isnt it true that government powers (and bureaucracy) increased exponentially during the "small government" Reagan years, and now during the Bush years.
Especially, in the case of Bush,via the powers of surveillance etc, or everything to do with a police state apparatus.
I agree with Strom. Conservative constituants usually favor small government. An elected politician (of any ilk, Reagan and Bush included) may, almost by definition, be predisposed to expand government, often to the dismay of those who voted for them. I always have to cast my ballot in favor whomever I think is going to do us the least overall damage, and sincerely believe my Reagan and Bush votes met that criteria in retrospect.
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