Making Baby Jesus Cry

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Spanky
Are you using the Bong tonight. Again, I was pointing out that in the small states the people have inclination towards limited government. Just because some of their politicians representing their states are voting for increased spending during a war at the Federal level does not mean that the citizens of these states have abandoned their anitpathy towards government. Have the state governments in these states started increasing their spending recently? Have they changed their state legislatures from being part time to full time? Just because some of their representatives have voted for increased government spending over the past few years does not mean that the average citizen of these states have changed their inclinations towards small government.

Whatever. I have lived in the biggest state and the smallest state, and some in between, and know rather more about their respective governments than you seem to think. I was making a rather different point, about the hypocrisy of the modern Republican party, who prattle about the virtue of small government while spending more and more federal money, esp. on pork.

No but the statement kiss my ass is just as petty and juvenile as telling me to move to Somalia, and both demonstrate that you are losing the argument and are therefore resorting to juvenile statements.

Somalia is the ultimate in small government, so I thought it had a sort of reductio ad absurdum charm to it, but different strokes, I guess.

We are getting nothing close to Gray Davis budgets. He increased spending by forty percent while he was in office. And it would be nice if the government was spending the money on roads, prisons and schools. Instead it is spending money on bureacracys and no bid contracts.

As I think your answer implicitly suggests, we essentially have had Gray Davis budgets under Arnold, without the cuts in spending that would restore the state's budget to balance. Instead, we get the same sort of tricks -- e.g., deals with Indian casinos, which revenue gets counted all in the first year instead of as it comes in -- to paper over the imbalance.

I am listeneing to what you are saying, but trying to argue that voting population in the rural states are less inclined towards big government is a completely ridiculous position to take. It is completely unsupportable and yet you try and argue it.

Please show me where I said that.