Reply #20: Let's make this perfectly clear: GOP is the party of HUGE government. [View All]

[Zorra]

Not only has the federal government greatly expanded the number of people that it has working for it and gone on a spending spree that is unprecedented in American history, it has abolished many civil liberties and privacy rights, giving itself unprecedented license to interfere in the daily lives of Americans.

George W. Bush: A "Big Government Tax-Cut & Spend Conservative?"

The the era of big government is back, thanks to the Bush Administration.

That’s the conclusion of a Brookings Institute study. The Wall Street Journal reported that the think tank is releasing a study Friday which found that the “number of full-time employees working on government contracts and grants has zoomed by more than one million people since 1999, bringing the overall head count to more than 12.1 million as of this past October.”
snip----
But representatives of two conservative think tanks said the findings dovetail with their own studies of government growth under President Bush. Stephen Moore, president of the Club for Growth, and Daniel Mitchell, a Heritage Foundation economist, argue that government was much better contained under President Clinton, in part because Mr. Clinton faced a skeptical Republican Congress.

"We are now seeing the biggest expansion in government since Lyndon Johnson was in the White House," Mr. Moore said. "It is pretty much an across-the-board mushrooming of government. We have the biggest education, foreign aid and agriculture bills in history, and bigger expansions are on the agenda."

http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2003/09/george_w_bush_a.html

Republican voters are so brainwashed. You can convince a republican that it is not raining, if that is what they want to hear, while they are being soaked to the bone in a thunderstorm.