The Party of Big Government

Mr. Smith — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 03:43:41 +0000

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?

Give it up, Republicans. Admit that your agenda is the relentless push for a totalitarian state. Admit that all this “tea party” grandstanding is just so much posturing. The only “freedom” you represent is the freedom of large corporations to take advantage of the people. Your objective is to prevent individual people from having the freedom to make such basic self-determinations as whether or not to have a baby. Your party does not stand for freedom, and your ideology has nothing to do with small government.

Principles » totalitarian state

The Party of Big Government