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Monday 31 May 2010

Reagan demonstrated that you could spend eight years expanding the federal government and build up a vast deficit, all the while talking about how government was the enemy and that you, an outsider, were holding it at bay by the use of strict financial discipline, and people would love you for it, because the results of your cluelessness would perfectly align with the nature of their hypocrisy: the problems of this country over the course of my lifetime have been the result less of too much big government than of the childishness of an electorate overstocked with people who want everything they they’ve grown accustomed to seeing as part of their way of life regarded as sacrosanct but regard anything the government does that they don’t see as benefiting them directly, whether it’s a school lunch program or signs printed in two languages or buildings that are designed to be wheelchair-accessible, as a waste of money at best or an infringement on their space and pocketbook at worst. The stupidest and meanest among them aren’t even ashamed to appear in public equating having a few cents shaved off their taxes to pay for such things with “tyranny”. Phil Nugent

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