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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The right in this country is much more radical than the left at this point.[/quote]

Spoken like a true Lefty.

The significant expansion of Federal Government power we are witnessing is a radical concept. Unless you support it.[/quote]

Most of it under Republican presidents. By far the biggest spenders of the last 30 years have been the Republican presidents. Clinton ran a surplus. Obama had cut the deficit. Reagan and the Bushes created our deficits. Thats a fact. In terms of the [i]size[/i] of the federal government, who created the whole new behemoth of a department, the Department of Homeland Security?

The founders, of whom the far right seems to be obsessed with, rejected the idea of atomized state power when they rejected the Articles of Confederation and replaced it with our federal government.

The truth is that the right wants government to do the things it wants -- run wars, the WWII memorial, I'm guessing they probably like our highway system, a few things like that -- but they criticize the federal government when it provides services for poor and working class people. The wealthy do get services, BTW. They pay a far lower percentage of their income in taxes, they get sweet government contracts and more tax breaks, and they use their money to game the system so the rules favor them. We have become a far, far less mobile society, the whole pulling yourself up by your bootstraps thing that the right claims to love is less and less possible. The ironic thing is that the extreme economic disparity we have now limits economic growth. When so much money is concentrated in so few, it doesn't stimulate the economy. And that will ultimately hurt the wealthy as well. But taking the long view is not a strong suit . . .[/quote]

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