I was pondering what I thought about big government vs. small governemt. I don't like the idea of big government as it's oppressive and the tax burden continues to grow and grow as the tax base continues to shrink and shrink.
Big gov't supporters say things like "if left to their own devices, big businesses will do nothing but exploit people and laws for their own ends; that's why we need more governance and oversight!" Small government supporters say stuff like "yeah, but whose job is it to 'watch the watchers'? Big government, if left to its own devices, will simply run over over opposition as a bastion of inefficiency and waste, with its own internal power struggles, corruptions, and endless oversight."
I do believe in original sin, which means I believe that both are, in a sense, correct. Mankind, when left to his own devices, typically chooses evil (Romans 1) except when to choose "good" would further his own agenda (i.e. good PR for example). I don't like the idea of mankind being exploited by a small minority of leaders or a big conglomerate of leaders.
I dislike Barak and I dislike big government republicans. I dislike both of them for moral, economic, ethical, and terrorism stances that each choose to support. But of course, I'm saying this from a "Christ-in-me, the-hope-of-my-glory" posture, which I'm quite positive that neither of these groups hold to. We've forsaken our founding fathers' position as a nation under God instead tried to subject God to the rules of the nation (think of this as 'one God under nation' postmodern stance).
May God return to these shores again. He's the only hope we have.
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"Big Government" is just a confusing label for abused government. The size of government has no correlation to whether or not the power given to officials is abused. The problem is that we have no one keeping government accountable. In recent american history (last 100 or so years), the media (newspapers) helped keep government in check, and uncovered corruption. Americans got used to having that check, and became dependent on it. Now that big media has coalesced, and become partisan themselves, its up to americans to educate themselves. Because americans are pretty lazy, and pretty stupid, and pretty gullible, they will believe whatever agrees with them on an emotional level rather than an argument based in facts. Sigh.
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