I just wanted to add this article from Truthdig.
"Small" government activists don't actually believe in small government. They love and cherish these farm subsidy programs - the New Deal program created alongside Social Security and Glass-Steagall - which, when you call a spade a spade, is welfare. The American government spends something like $20 billion a year for farms not to grow crops.
Tea party activists want to keep gay couples from full citizenship, keep victimless crimes illegal and make sure a woman can't get a safe abortion. What I don't understand is this: abortion, the issue that divides this country more than anything I can think of, is a philosophically libertarian issue. Making it illegal automatically makes it a government vs. individual issue; otherwise who would be enforcing its illegality? Logically, and I hate it when people type in all caps, but,:
IF YOU WANT LIMITED GOVERNMENT, THEN YOU SUPPORT ABORTION RIGHTS.
I know I mentioned before my own inherent hypocrisy in the last post, but this seems to be kind of strange, yeah? I have not heard one Tea Party-er talk about this. They don't want government involved in health care, yet they demand government involvement in a medical procedure.
(Also, they are fine with spending 684 billion on the military budget, yet are worried about the solvency of Medicare. They hate the bailout of Wall Street, but are taking millions of dollars in contributions from the billionaire Koch brothers to finance their candidates.)
I am getting off track. The real question is: How can they mention reckless government spending without mentioning the military budget or farm subsidies?
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