Billo_Really
Litre of the Band
One of the most widely advertised but falsest claims in American politics is that the modern Republican Party stands for “small government.”
They say they believe in small government when it comes to "...taxes on the wealthy, limiting regulation of big business, gutting environmental regulations, weakening legal protections for workers and racial minorities, and slashing government funding for public education, public health, and social welfare services." But when it comes to other government services and programs, they sing a different tune.
Here's a short list of what the republicans consider "small government":
- post-9/11 U.S. government policies of widespread surveillance
- indefinite detention without trial
- torture and extraordinary rendition
- government subsidies for religious institutions
- free passage across international boundaries
- government denial of collective bargaining rights for public sector workers
- government attacks on public use of public space (for example, the violent police assaults on the Occupy movement)
- government interference with women’s right to abortion and doctors’ right to perform it
- government interference with the right of same-sex couples to marry
- government provision of extraordinarily lengthy imprisonment for drug possession (for example, in the “war on drugs” and numerous other nonviolent offenses
- government attacks on public use of public space (for example, the violent police assaults on the Occupy movement)
- government interference with voting rights (such as “voter suppression” laws)
- government restrictions on freedom of information
Small government my ass!
They also claim to believe in freedom. That to, is a big lie! Someone who actually believes in freedom, would be supporting organizations that go to bat for American's, defending their civil liberties, like the ACLU. But we all know how the GOP treats them.
If they cared about freedom, they'd be outraged over his treatment.Where...is the Republican outrage at the U.S. government’s crackdown on people like Bradley Manning who expose government misconduct, or on whistle-blowing operations like WikiLeaks and its leading light, Julian Assange?
So if the republican party doesn't support small government, personal freedoms for American's and the health and welfare of this country, what do they support?
Here it is in a nutshell...
there is a common denominator to this kind of small government action. It is all designed to serve the interests of the wealthy and powerful at the expense of everyone else. Thus, the Republican Party opposes government alleviation of hunger through the distribution of food stamps, but supports government subsidies to corporations.