A Republican Motto

Today we were driving back from our Saturday shopping, and we talked for a moment about the latest bit of Bush League shenanigans, whatever it was — it's hard to keep track. However, I can say with certainty that it would have had something to do with bilking avearge Amerians in some way to line the pockets of the rich people and corporations who bought this Administration.

With a faint remembrance of conservative ghosts past who crusaded for smaller government coloring our thoughts about this current crop of cut-taxes-and-spend Republicans, we realized we had a new motto for Republicans:

Smaller Government at Any Cost!

Royalty checks to me, please.

Posted on September 17, 2005 at 15.14 by jns · Permalink
In: All, Splenetics

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  1. Written by S.W. Anderson
    on Sunday, 18 September 2005 at 16.07
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    I've long had fun demanding of people on the right that they spell out how small would be small enough. This is something they're very circumspect about.

    In actuality, I don't think one in a million of them have ever stopped to seriously consider the question. For nearly all of them, whatever the government's current size, it's too big. Whatever its current cost, it's too much. They're into the journey or struggle, not the destination.

  2. Written by jns
    on Saturday, 24 September 2005 at 17.34
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    No of course they don't, they simply respond to the single-ended question "Do you support smaller government?" After all, who in his right mind would support bigger government as a fundamental principle.

    There was the survey some years back asking, first, whether we [America] spend too much of our budget on foreign aid. Overwhelmingly, the response was "yes". Then, the question was: how much would be appropriate, and the answers were in the 5% to 7% range. Then it was revealed to the respondant that the actual current figure was more like 1.5%.

    It reminds me of the post in which I quoted a survey result: "Are you in the top 1% of earners? 19% of Americans say 'yes' "!

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