Principles

I’d like to take a moment to reflect on the part of Big Government. Yes, I am speaking of the American political party that ran up the largest budget deficit in our history after inheriting a budget surplus from their predecessors. This is the party whose leaders have consistently supported such privacy-invading policies as warrantless wiretaps and renditions. This party is pushing for a surveillance state: the true “Big Brother is watching you” scenario, where the NSA reads all your e-mails, the FBI has a computer system to transcribe all your phone calls, and the police have cameras on every intersection to track your movements. This party’s leaders lied to Congress, the United Nations, and the American people in order to start a war on false pretenses, a war they wanted for no other reason than because war is profitable. And lest we forget, this party’s leaders also handed more than a trillion dollars in taxpayer money to irresponsible financial institutions.

Yet somehow this party’s spokespeople like to pretend that it is the party of small government??? The party of fiscal responsibility? How do a surveillance state and record deficits square with small government?

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