What is so good about Bigger Government?

[Lone solider]

Government ruins everything it touches and more. I not a anarchist or anything like that. I believe that government should regulate law and order but should be limited. I think that the government should not interfere in the free market, education, and people's personal lives.
the greatest known example of government failure(besides the education system) is the response on hurricane Katrina and New Orleans. The private sector was much faster, for example, Walmart was their to aid the victims of Katrina way before Government and its slow a** got in New Orleans. Even the rebuilding process (which should of been handled by the private or business sector) is pathetically slow and badly done.
I'm not a conservatives. I am a independent African American. By looking at history and current events that I'm not in favor of bigger government.

[Derek]

As a liberal, i'll tell you - NOTHING. Smaller is better. More accountability!!!

[C B]

There is nothing good about big government. I wish more people would realize this. The Rehnquist court did. I just hope the Roberts court will carry on the torch in attempting to have at least one branch of the federal government return power to the states.

[Mark D]

To C.B.:

Okay, I'll sort of agree with you that the Roberts Court will hopefully be returning power to the states. But the Rehnquist Court was sometimes guilty of wrongly taking power from the states. Like with Bush v. Gore -- a total travesty. That is a mistake which has cost the conservative wing dearly in terms of loss of respectability.

[C R]

You people should learn how to take care of yourselves. During the Clinton administration, there was a heat wave that killed 700 people in Chicago. No one bitche-d because the media is pro-democrat. Blacks should learn to live without government support and get their act together. Are there still poor Irish immigrants causing trouble in New York? Are there still poor Chinese, whose ancestors worked for slave wages, running neighborhoods that are too dangerous to walk into? Its been 200 years, they should shape up or ship out. Government is too large and that is a Socialist Democratic ideal. There are too many social programs for a group of people that produce nothing but bastard children and crime. If NO was a white city, no one would have complained that the Government didn't instantly teleport in and give relief; y'all had to wait a few weeks to waste all the money on DVD's, drugs, alcohol and HD TV's. Hell, I was in the wrong place at the wrong time, I only have a 30 inch TV. Bring the hate back this way, I'll be waiting.


Derek: Do you know what a liberal is? Or did you just call yourself one because it is the cool thing for 20-30 year olds to do?
Democrat = Liberal = Larger Government and expansion of programs. Alphabet soup, regulation, Social Programs, etc.
Republican = Conservative = Smaller Government and less regulation. Laissez Faire, etc.

You don't even know what the group you assosciate stands for.

[DS_ORCHID]

anonymous X you sound like a true conservative. big government is not good.

Derek smaller government is better large bureaucracy moves to slow.

if you would like to see how your views compare to political parties you can take a test at http://www.3pc.net/matchmaker/quiz.html

The problem Bush has with the conservative base is that there is too much spending going on, and he grew the government by making all the airport personnel; government employees,

and the conservatives are also not happy with the spending that congress and the Senate are doing.

which is why some Republicans will not be returning because more conservatives are challenging the moderates in primaries.

[wwoouut]

Ask Bush. He seems to LOVE big government, judging by the money he and his creepy Republican buddies have spent the past six years.

[rockinlalkanomicon]

Smaller government is better. If they are going to regulate, they need to regulate these huge corporation and media monopolies.

[cyu]

A government is just another group of people who agree on something. In a state of no government, there would still be people who band together and decide to do something, whether it's helping disaster victims or patrolling the streets. It's hard to define at what point a group of people becomes a government and at what point it's not.

The real question is what each group of people decides to do and whether it's beneficial to society. Are there structural problems with that group that prevent it from doing what's best? There will be groups of people who band together regardless - the question is how that group should be structured. Whether you call them a government or not is less important of a question.