[Vision2020] USA government growth

Mon, 14 Jun 2004 15:34:55 EDT

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Robert:

Part of the Republican critique of federal government run programs was the 
opinion that the private sector is more efficient and cost effective, that 
government run programs are inherently wasteful and inefficient.  It was not merely 
to cut back on New Deal social entitlements in favor of local control for 
efforts that can be done locally, leaving programs related to national defense, 
etc., to continue in their inefficient ways.  And assuming this, the 
Republicans appear to contradict themselves significantly, when they support funding the 
private sector with massive military related contracts, contracts that reveal 
that indeed the private sector can be just as egregiously wasteful of tax 
dollars as government run programs, as we have witnessed often in the past, and 
recently with Halliburton in Iraq.

Also, the Republican agenda has run on the slogan of getting government off 
the backs of Americans, yet with the Patriot Act and the operations of the 
Department of Homeland Security, we are seeing a dramatic increase in the power of 
the Federal government to interfere in the lives of law abiding American 
citizens, under the banner of defense and waging a "War On Terror."

Whether the Patriot Act and the huge bureaucracy of the Department of 
Homeland Security are "big government" programs of the sort that Republicans should, 
if they were ideologically consistent, be opposing, is a matter of debate.

Ted Moffett 

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Robert:<BR>
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Part of the Republican critique of federal government run programs was the o=
pinion that the private sector is more efficient and cost effective, that go=
vernment run programs are inherently wasteful and inefficient.&nbsp; It was=20=
not merely to cut back on New Deal social entitlements in favor of local con=
trol for efforts that can be done locally, leaving programs related to natio=
nal defense, etc., to continue in their inefficient ways.&nbsp; And assuming=
 this, the Republicans appear to contradict themselves significantly, when t=
hey support funding the private sector with massive military related contrac=
ts, contracts that reveal that indeed the private sector can be just as egre=
giously wasteful of tax dollars as government run programs, as we have witne=
ssed often in the past, and recently with Halliburton in Iraq.<BR>
<BR>
Also, the Republican agenda has run on the slogan of getting government off=20=
the backs of Americans, yet with the Patriot Act and the operations of the D=
epartment of Homeland Security, we are seeing a dramatic increase in the pow=
er of the Federal government to interfere in the lives of law abiding Americ=
an citizens, under the banner of defense and waging a "War On Terror."<BR>
<BR>
Whether the Patriot Act and the huge bureaucracy of the Department of Homela=
nd Security are "big government" programs of the sort that Republicans shoul=
d, if they were ideologically consistent, be opposing, is a matter of debate=
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Ted Moffett </FONT></HTML>

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