Big government
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Democrats Contemplate Direct Government Hiring...iteration of the program underperformed because it wasn't bold enough. "[T]he problem with CETA was not that it embodied Big Government, but that it was not big enough. CETA left behind no lasting monuments like LaGuardia Airport and the... In this article: Comprehensive Employment and Training Act, Tax, Unemployment, HuffPost, Steny Hoyer, Waste, and GOP |
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Politics NJ | November 03, 2009
The Revival of the Reagan Democrats in Gloucester and Middlesex
...and social libertarians. Still, they felt by 1980 that the Democrat administration of Jimmy Carter was following a foreign policy of appeasement and big government domestic policies of economic contraction. They believed in the Reagan...
In this article: Chris Christie, Gloucester, Republican Party, Ronald Reagan, New Jersey, Tax, EPA, and Democratic Party
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The Daily Beast - Blogs and Stories | September 17, 2009
Carter's Charge Is a Distraction
...most of us. Jessee Jackson is a black man. Obama is far from it. And it's not likely that Carter would be able to understand someone's vehemently disliking big government. Mr.Crouch makes a cogent analysis of the toxic environment...
In this article: Barack Obama, Jimmy Carter, Stanley Crouch, The Daily Beast, Meghan McCain, Fred Astaire, Rush Limbaugh, Democracy, and Reactionary
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Human Events: Politics | September 16, 2009
Reagan Coalition Redux
...dead and buried. By pushing farther and farther left on both domestic and foreign policy, the President has opened up himself and his party to a position as big government, deficit spending out of touch politicians at home and weak on national...
In this article: Jimmy Carter, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, Steroid, Joe Wilson, and Russia
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Reuters | February 27, 2009
Republicans set course in Congress budget battle
...while Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Obama's proposals recalled the "big government mentality" of former Democratic President Jimmy Carter -- a favorite target for many in the conservative movement. Ornstein said that...
In this article: Barack Obama, Socialism, Tax, Norm Ornstein, Ben Nelson, and Susan Collins
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Wall Street Journal: Politics and Policy | August 26, 2008
Shaky Economy Challenges Ambitious Obama Agenda - WSJ.com
...in Washington. Sen. Obama's advisers argue that he would be largely free from those constraints, easing the way for him to put in place big government programs, tax increases on the wealthy and trade restraints. An Obama victory would...
In this article: Sen. Obama, Tax, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Climate change, Douglas Brinkley, Washington, John McCain, and Jimmy Carter
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Boston Globe -- Today's paper A to Z | February 27, 2009
Obama drives US toward socialism, GOP says
...Obama "the world's best salesman of socialism," while McConnell said Obama's proposals recalled the "big government mentality" of former President Jimmy Carter - a favorite target for many conservatives. Norm Ornstein, a congressional...
In this article: Barack Obama, Socialism, GOP, Tax, Ben Nelson, Kent Conrad, Mitch McConnell, E-mail, and Nancy Pelosi
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Huffington Post | October 22, 2008
HuffPollstrology: Candidates' Horoscopes, Polls And More For October 23
...judgment, experience and old age. Saturn's placement on Election Day is exactly where it was 28 years ago when Reagan beat Carter on his pro-growth, anti-big government, supply side, tax cutting agenda. As Saturn is also the "reality...
In this article: John McCain, Barack Obama, Saturn, Sun, Mars, Uranus, Zogby, Jimmy Carter, and Ronald Reagan
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Centre Daily Times | July 05, 2009
People want new programs but remain wary of big government'
...the enemy and beat incumbent Democratic President Jimmy Carter in 1980. Even Democrat Bill Clinton declared in 1996 that "the era of big government is over." At the same time, however, Clinton's next sentence proved prescient in...
In this article: Climate change, Political science, Bill Clinton, Global warming, Pew Research Center, Washington, General Motors, and Ed Royce
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Washington Post | October 10, 2008
McCain's Risky Turn The Trail washingtonpost.com
...ticket. And now his son has killed the party Reagan built. Let's review: he's embraced deficit spending, big government, and direct government involvement in private enterprise. He displayed the same "they're too big to fail" thinking of...
In this article: John McCain, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, George HW Bush, Bill Ayers, Mark McKinnon, Tony Rezko, and Republican Party
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Big government (sometimes capitalized as Big Government) is a term generally used by political conservatives, laissez-faire advocates or libertarians to describe a government which is excessively large, corrupt and inefficient, or which is inappropriately involved in certain areas of public policy. In this latter sense the term may also be used by political liberals in relation to government policies which attempt to regulate matters considered to be private or personal, such as private sexual behavior.
Big government can refer to any of a number of bureaucratic criticisms: government programs where policy goals could be accomplished with smaller more nimble organizations, attempts to federalize programs traditionally implemented at the state level, implementing programs that seek to accomplish functions normally associated with the private sector or private organizations (such as non-profit groups or religious organizations), expensive programs that are likely to increase significantly in costs in the long term, subject to cost overruns and poor cost analysis, resistant to reform efforts both internally and externally, large bureaucracies lacking in accountability, limited or no checks and balances on power within the organization, inadequate or inconsistent metrics to verify to efficacy, limited genuine benefits conferred to citizens, cost ineffective (benefits are outweighed by high costs), programs funded primarily by bond packages. A common example of big government is unfunded federal mandates, where federal programs and policy priorities are imposed upon states, requiring states to bear the financial burden without funding from the federal level.
Counter-arguments hold that governments can fulfill public programs with efficiency, controlling spending and holding personnel or contractors accountable for their performance.
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