Spending tax money on defense is a legitimate action of government. In fact, protection is what government was invented for in the first place! It's when that spending is used outside of this function, and is wasted on social programs and other pork, that it is to be criticized.
From the article:
Though Bush bristles at the notion that this is the very big government he ran against, the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 have forced him to major expansions from hiring 40,000 baggage screeners to increases in the Border Patrol, Coast Guard, Federal Emergency Management Agency and Immigration and Naturalization Service.
If this wasn't enough to give him membership in the tax and spend Democratic Club that conservatives all deplore, for the last 10 weeks Bush has been working on a major crackdown on the same big business that put up so much money to send him to Washington.
I'm sorry, but that is ridiculous. Spending money for baggage handlers is not socialism.
The only problem that needs to be resolved is, of course, that there's not enough money to go around--so if we want large increases in the defense budget, we'll need to offset that by rolling back spending on the non-essentials in the social programs started by the Democrats.
Unionizing them is.
Uncle Fed is now the largest union employer in the nation.
(And it's hard enough to fire a bad cop or teacher, can you imagine how tough it's going to be with screeners?)
But nationalizing an entire industry is.