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vegan atheist indy
- Sep 27, 2008
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Okay, I see that you are not really interested in a discussion, but the furthering of your own personal agenda."The "small government" movement in the United States, furthermore, is not just a product of either America's founding or of the Tea Party movement, but is largely a product of Ronald Reagan's presidency from 1980-88, and the conservative movement that prefaced Reagan's presidency. Barry Goldwater's failed 1964 bid for the presidency was a prelude to the ideas of cutting the size of government expressed by Reagan and other conservatives. Reagan served during the same time period as Thatcher, who was listed under the United Kingdom in this article, and the two are linked in discourse about small government.
The Tea Party movement, however, claims that the Founding Fathers advocated small government and that, contrary to what Hamilton wrote, the Constitution prohibits large government. They also claim that in the past the United States had a small government, and that it has turned away from that ideal. The Republican Party is associated with the idea of small government, especially in its conservative wing containing politicians like Ron Paul. One minor party, the Libertarian party, has an ideology of small government. Another advocate for small government is Carla Howell."
Small government - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Small government began at our inception as a country. To deny it is to rewrite history for nefarious purposes.
You are just another corrupt government worshiper. A governmentist.
Small denotes a quantity, by definition. I am just asking for a ballpark measurement of this number, and what it would mean. All of your meanderings into the past are complete non-sequiturs. I am not disagreeing with the notion of small government, just with its use as rhetoric when it has not been defined.
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