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Sticking with Small : The appropriate size of government.(big government: public opinion since the World Trade Center disaster)
Big government is back. Since September 11, Americans have been looking to Washington again for answers-disregarding a generation of conservative warnings that it creates more problems than it solves. "When the chips are down, where do we turn?" asks Jeff Faux in The American Prospect, a liberal magazine. "To the government's firefighters, police officers, and rescue teams. To the nonprofit sector's blood banks and shelters. And to big government's army, navy, and air force."
Bill Moyers, writing in The Nation, a leftist magazine, is able to find the silver lining in 9/11: "This catastrophe has reminded us of a basic truth at the heart of our democracy: No matter ...
- SABC: Big Government Or Big Money
- Newspaper article from: Sacramento Observer Staci Bush September 20, 1995 700+ words
...Sacramento Observer 09-20-1995 SABC: Big Government Or Big Money. A WEEKLY COLUMN BY THE...has been preoccupied by the fear of big government. That is nothing new. The Democratic...Party's obsession with the evils of big government has risen to the level of paranoia...
- The Rowan Report: Americans hate big government, except...
- Newspaper article from: Indianapolis Recorder Carl Rowan August 20, 1994 700+ words
...to execute Americans for 60 more...crimes. Big government is asked...tiny wing of big government, the National...a single American who does...way from "big government," whether...Sadly, some Americans will accept...
- Big Government for Whom?
- Magazine article from: The Progressive Zinn, Howard April 1, 1999 700+ words
...were calling for "big government." So insistent has...home and abroad. "Big government" was needed for the...open violence." The American colonists, having...problem, to set up "big government," to protect the...
- Whose big government?(THE OUT YEARS)
- Magazine article from: The American Prospect Schmitt, Mark June 1, 2007 700+ words
...POLITICAL PHENOMENON OF recent times is "big-government conservatism." The lines on every...For conservatives, the story of big-government conservatism has become a chapter in...compelling fable. But for liberals, big government conservatism creates a real paradox...
- Little Big Government.(Commentary)(Editorials)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times January 25, 1996 700+ words
"The era of big government is over." So said President Clinton...by the hallmark intrusiveness of big government. Take school uniforms. An issue...school, how exactly is the era of big government over? Or how about one of the...
- Look! Reagan's Big Government
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Rowland Evans; Robert Novak November 18, 1986 700+ words
...will mount when it surfaces a pro-big government health-care report on the heels of its anti-big government task force report on the family...indictment of "anti-family agenda" big government activism of the '60s and '70s as...
- IT'S A BIG LIE TO BLAME BIG SPENDING ON `BIG GOVERNMENT'.(MAIN)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) June 24, 1994 700+ words
...lie that's dominated American politics for close to...is the growth of ``big government'' programs foisted...money to solve problems Americans were genuinely worried...being straight about big government. If the Republicans...
- Little Big Government, cont'd.(Commentary)(Editorials)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times October 23, 1996 700+ words
Little Big Government lives on. President Clinton, over...The man who declared the era of big government to be over just can't stop proposing...he envisions. Ending the era of big government, however, means ending the heavy...