Mr. Conservative
Independent Institute
by Alvaro Vargas Llosa
09/27/06
By any measure, the size of government has increased under the conservative Bush administration and a Republican-controlled Congress. Since 2001, federal outlays have gone up by 45 percent. The federal government has also grown in power: The fact that a Republican White House should favor a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage is indicative of the moral authority current conservatives assign to the federal government. For them, the premise of the Constitution -- limiting the power of government -- is less important than the moral imperative. This contradiction, I would suggest, is one of the two great challenges modern-day America poses to a young conservative mind. The other one is the tension between the passion for limiting government and the belief in military intervention abroad -- the warfare state...
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1823
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by Alvaro Vargas Llosa
09/27/06
By any measure, the size of government has increased under the conservative Bush administration and a Republican-controlled Congress. Since 2001, federal outlays have gone up by 45 percent. The federal government has also grown in power: The fact that a Republican White House should favor a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage is indicative of the moral authority current conservatives assign to the federal government. For them, the premise of the Constitution -- limiting the power of government -- is less important than the moral imperative. This contradiction, I would suggest, is one of the two great challenges modern-day America poses to a young conservative mind. The other one is the tension between the passion for limiting government and the belief in military intervention abroad -- the warfare state...
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1823
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
rudkla - 28. Sep, 13:02
