The Return of Big Government

Government Health Care

Is Obamacare going to take care of us the same way the government is taking care of the water needs of the farmers in California?

MaryLou of AZ @ Sep 16, 2009 10:45:04 AM

a Kevin

So this is journalistic integrity? When they, (the "so called" mainstream media), look back over their shoulders at their list of achievements in life, what will be the legacy they left behind? What will be their "high water mark"...? Hopefully it will be the day they decided to take off the blinders and return to the journalistic integrity they aspired to in school. I hope they take a couple minutes and give a long, hard look at their credentials hanging there on the wall and possibly wonder if their bias is worth their dignity. Patriotism and integrity define ones true self. When all is said and done, how will they be judged? Wake up NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN AND MSNBC...USA TODAY. Please, before you are entirely written off as also ran, give us what you would want for yourselves...the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

a Kevin of MO @ Sep 11, 2009 13:46:44 PM

this is not surprizing

When you find out the truth and that does take some digging. You will find that this country was founded by some bright fellows who wanted the best for this country. but due to human nature that ideal became the big lie. hardly a time hs gone by that this country is a bag full of lies, may of us who are in our fifties and sixties. Are ashamed to call our selves Americans. I am afraid we have one of two choices . Just simply keep to our selves and keep our own noses clean as individuals or start a Real life Revolution. By first draggin Barrck Obama out of the White house and Dragging out every lying dirty snake out from every dark corner ,reveal and destroy them. I have and idea hire Bill Cosby as President pay him $1 million dollars per year of 4 years under a a an accountability group of 24 Born again Christians who are elders. Have him convict every murderer and every convict guilty of a violent crime. Pull every convict from every death row and then take them out into a Televised death squad and destroy every single Rapist murderer and corrupt government official on national Television and pronounce a sentence of death to every single person for treason in the only way that will stop the senseless depravity of mankind in/and against this nation.

TheAmericanHero of CO @ Sep 10, 2009 18:09:10 PM

Big Government

With a current deficit of $10,841,211,960,070.71 ( as of 2/26/09 @11:07 GMT), what part Big Government is new? It has been increasing an average of $3.55 billion per day since 2007.

Can "Big Government" really be attributible to the new President's proposed budget? Or do we already have an "overly big goverment" which is yet another of the legacy jewels donated by the previous regime. Seems to me that reports of "the new big government" seem a little overrated and outdated ....

The key difference now is that we will wisely and prudently direct a major portion of our money towards internal growth, to build the US externally. We are going to spend the our money on the majority of Americans, to build America, for American prosperity and our future ... jobs, health, education, scientific advancements, that's not big government that's economics 101.

This sounds more like a big challenge, than any negative connotations associated with labels like "big government" which reaks of hints of bipartisianship.

It's not "Big Government" it's "The Big Challenge" are we up to it, I think so, because were Americans. Like the new direction Obama is taking the country - Yes We Can - I hope the press also can get onboard, not just take the easy way out and report using only the same old standard fallback points of view. I hope the press will take "The Big Challenge" to review, examine, discuss, debate, and report with a new outlook and methodologies.

S ... of IN @ Feb 26, 2009 18:32:39 PM

Big Government

If Americans are ready to allow government a larger role in their lives, they should also be prepared for the consequences. Social security has a demographic time bomb ticking; government has refused to address the problem. Medicare continues to struggle with access to care and cost.

The government continues to tell us inflation is low (4-5% annually), while knowledgeable experts are estimating it closer to 7-11% annually. Why would the government understate inflation? Because it would require larger cost of living adjustments for social security, adding to the problem.

Energy costs continue to escalate, but the government has refused to allow access to our own energy deposits. The congress should be discussing nuclear energy and drilling in ANWR as part of national energy policy, but no. How high will energy costs go before the voter requires action?

It appears there are many problems already, none of which the government has come close to solving. How can any serious person expect the government to really address additional problems.

Jeffrey Payne of CA @ May 11, 2008 16:51:07 PM

Three Stooges

It's too bad that the cover page does not accompany this article. The photo was worth 1000 words: head shots of Obama, Clinton and McCain over the words "BIG GOVERNMENT." When it arrived, I showed it to my husband who, seeing it from across the room, asked, "is that the three stooges?"

I'm tired of every election coming down to voting AGAINST the other candidate instead of being motivated to vote FOR a candidate. This year, an alternative to this madness remains in the race, and if conflict is good for ratings and sales, why not cover the one man who's comments and principles are 180 degrees from the three we hear about ad nauseam? It makes me wonder if the media are lazy, incompetent, or just incapable of understanding anything other than a sound bite.

N Dillon of MN @ May 08, 2008 09:51:31 AM

All this talk of big government

And not ONE mention of Ron Paul? He's still running and anyone with a brain that is following the elections know that too. But still, no one is willing to mention that HE will not bring big government back. You complain of big government but won't give the candidate who wants to bring small government the time of day.

SPC US Army currently Deployed OEF @ May 06, 2008 01:03:24 AM

How To Reduce The Size of Government/Big L.O.'s Like Ted Turner? Use The Land Value Tax/Land Value Capture System

If you DO REALLY WANT to reduce the size of government, FIRST, DEMAND that ALL governmd business data bases, and information be Eliminated!!! Second, DEMAND your federal, state, and local political, social, and business,leaders and religious leaders GET WITH THE PROGRAM and support YOU in introducing and proposing a federal, state, and local Land Value Tax/Land Value Capture Laws, and BEFORE that can happen citizen's MUST ALSO DEMAND, BOTH a Survey-Study of ALL in the U.S., ALL 50 state's and U.S. Territories, and an LVT/LVC Public Pilot Project, at both the state and local levels of government, and actually see land values rise as the tax is collected and the land value captured. A typical, average vacant lot is actually under taxed by $30 to $50,000 Dollars, thus theivery takes place by absentee land-owners,who monopolize/speculate, and land bank at great cost to both the public and government. People like Ted Turner, typically are over greedy and realize the Great harm they are causing by owning MORE land than they need!!! Also, the Mayor of Chocago has Tax Increment Finance District's, about 156, and maybe more TOTALLING $500 Million Dollars, according to Mr. Ben Joravskyof the local free paper, the Chicago Reader. The Mayor of Chicago MUST change that to an LVT/LVC ordinance and he too MUST order a Survey-Study of ALL land both vacant and occupied!!! ALL mayor's MUST DO this it's URGENT and VITAL!!!!!

D. MANN, of Humboldt Park, Chicago of IL @ Apr 24, 2008 12:39:14 PM