Big Government Is Not a Goal, It Is a Tactic -- And Now It Is a Republican Tactic

Human Events Online ^ | September 16, 2005 | Mac Johnson

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

And since you can just tax and borrow all the fish you need, why not pass out “free” tartar sauce while you’re at it?

The author nails it. The GOP is a joke.

[Warren_Piece]

Oh, I can just see it now. Bush stands in the Oval Office an announces, "We're not doing a damn thing. Screw all of you. Let New Orleans rot. We've got DEFICIT HAWKS to worry about!"

Yeah, that would go over real well.

We've just lost an American city. I repeat:
We've just LOST an American city.

We're Americans. We help the victims, we rebuild the city. That's wat we do. What else CAN we do?

[GraniteStateConservative]

Which is the conservative, again?

[verity]

You are welcome.

[don-o]

"That poverty has roots in a history of racial discrimination, which cut off generations from the opportunity of America," Bush said. "We have a duty to confront this poverty with bold action."

I came out of my chair, yelled screamed and scared the dog when I heard that. W's Jesse moment. Damn

[hubbubhubbub]

"we rebuild the city"

That is what insurance is for.

[GraniteStateConservative]

I'm hoping Bushs speech was just that.

Nope. He wants to fix his image post-Katrina and he's decided he'll put us further in debt to do it. Proud Mary said his proposals were "innovative and bold," which means expensive. It's not Bush's money anyway. Why should he care about how much of it is taken from us?

[pageonetoo]

We're Americans. We help the victims, we rebuild the city. That's wat we do. What else CAN we do?

[cripplecreek]

It sure seems to me that the president is handing the next election off to the democrats. I'm voting conservative regardless of party.

[cynicom]

What can we do????? Stop borrowing money to give away. If we dont have it, dont spend it.

[dts32041]

If you are going to spend that kind of money do something useful with it, like build a canal from the gulf of mexico to the pacfic ocean put port facilities along the way and never allow a hurricane to knock out a major facility with out a back up.

Let NOLA revert to wetlands, and put the canal ten miles inside our border with Mexico.

Everybody comes out better.

No money should be thrown down an open sewer.

[tanknetter]

You say that like you know little about history! The Soviets are bankrupt, and W is pushing us more toward it!

Exactly the same thing was said regarding the Reagan deficits. In fact, as a highschooler back in 1988 I was told by my state's Democratic Party Chairman that my grand-children were going to be paying for the Reagan/Bush deficits ...

Less than 10 years later I saw the same guy crowing on TV about how the entire DEBT could be paid off in 10 years (well before my children hit elementary school), thanks to the surplus.

On a simplistic level, Reagan believed that the US economy could outgrow just about any reasonable deficit/debt that the government threw at it. And from the looks of it, even with an additional $200 billion of deficit spending to pay for the hurricane recovery, this year's deficit still won't equal, relative to GDP, some of Reagan's deficits.

[G.Mason]

" I came out of my chair, yelled screamed and scared the dog when I heard that. W's Jesse moment. Damn"

And I shut off the TV, went to bed and had a fitful nights sleep.

I am remined of the words from an old joke ... "when rape is inevitable, relax and enjoy it".

Well, we are going to get raped, and I won't relax and I G@#damn won't enjoy it!

[NCSteve]

Excellent article. You beat me to the punch posting it.

So the party in power has changed and yet Government grows. Affirmative action and quotas grow. The border is opened ever wider. Debt grows. Regulation grows. Productive areas are still taxed to subsidize failed areas. And it’s all in a quest for one more vote. It is the pandering of ambitious whores unburdened by principle.

[L98Fiero]

"One of the more depressing events I have ever witnessed is the growth of spending under George W. Bush.:

My biggest issue with President Bush. The second would be the border. When I tell my lefty friends, "Bush never met a spending package he didn't like", their jaws drop. They can't believe I, as a conservative, would criticize the President. Leads me to believe they wouldn't criticize a Democrat for anything.

[Irontank]

Sadly, far too many Americans think that government is the answer and they vote. Bush and Rove have figured that out. We will never be a constitutional republic again

After watching that speech last night...I'm almost ready to throw in the towel...its over

But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty once lost is lost forever. When the People once surrender their share in the Legislature, and their Right of defending the Limitations upon the Government, and of resisting every Encroachment upon them, they can never regain it...
--John Adams to Abigail Adams - July 7, 1775

[Cboldt]

And it's all in a quest for one more vote.

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess of the public treasury. From that time on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the results that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.

Sir Alex Fraser Tytler (Questionable)

[NCSteve]

We're Americans. We help the victims, we rebuild the city. That's wat we do. What else CAN we do?

Indeed we do, but only a socialist would think the government has to do it. Bushevelt is just such a socialist. The alternative explanation is that he is just another pandering power whore. Which one do you like better?

[GraniteStateConservative]

You can't buy flood insurance in a flood zone.

That would be what's called a signal. A signal to live in that location at your own caution.

[raybbr]

Which is the conservative, again?

Wait till they tell you it's all about the war. :)