More big government please

[4Horsemen]

Originally Posted by Artisan10

I suspect those who are for big government are all for it as long as it is looking over everyone elses shoulders but theirs.

+1

It sure seems that way.

[4Horsemen]

Originally Posted by Art123

The question is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works -- whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified.
- President Barack Obama

I can only imagine the suffering our senior citizens will endure if they believe the crap in this statement.

[Visvaldis]

Originally Posted by NewportBarry

Which do you you prefer? personally I'm all for LESS Government in my life. I don't need some harpy Acorn clone peeking over my shoulder on everything I do.

what say you?

We need more big government to enforce moral values and to protect people from themselves.

[ringwise]

Originally Posted by joelaldo

I didn't know ACORN had any intentions of looking over my shoulder.

In the words of Stephen Colbert, "A government that governs least, governs best. Any by those standards, we have set up a terrific government in Iraq"

I think that a small government taking care of 300 million people is wishful thinking. No, I don't want a socialist government nor do I want a government with as big a role in our lives as, say, the French. But I think that complaints against Obama's health plan are mostly ill-founded. The health insurance has signed off on it. The American Medical Association signed off on it. What now? I think everyone's signed off on it except the Republican party.

I haven't met a single person on the right who can actually tell me WHY they are against the expansion of the government's role in healthcare other than their simple, idiotic populist banter of "small government" or "Obama's a socialist". Not one visible person on the right has come out on TV or the radio and outlined the economic weaknesses of the healthcare bill. Instead, they fixate on calling Obama a socialist or a bolshevist, and a 3rd world president (latent racism there? i think so)

The healthcare bill passed... not because Dems did a phenomenal job, but because Republicans acted like a bunch of sore losers and did a very questionable job combating it.

You haven't met a single person that can articulate why the bill is bad? You don't get out much, do you. You might want to turn off HuffPo and Daily Kos. I'm against the govt's role in healthcare because a) the decisions made regarding my health is my business, b) it is going to increase the amount I pay for health insurance tremendously, c) I was told that I would be able to keep my health plan (which I like) and I will NOT be able to, d) the govt never runs a program without sending the costs through the roof and incurring undbelieveable waste and fraud.

The healthcare bill passed because the party in power resorted to tricks (simple majority), payoffs (Louisiana purchase, etc.), sob stories that were simply not true (the woman in WA that would have been covered by their state's health system), and threats (vote for this or my presidency is doomed.)

Everyone but the Republican Party has signed off on it? Hardly.....