• Skip to main content
  • Skip to secondary menu
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Home
  • About and Contact
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Use

Civil Candor

political cynicism for turbulent times

  • American Values
  • Big Government
  • Government Ethics
  • Immigration

Big Government

It doesn’t matter whether a Democrat or Republican is in the White House. Big government keeps getting bigger. Democrats grow government for their special reasons. Republicans grow it for theirs. The result is a bureaucratic monstrosity that costs too much and can’t be controlled.

Obama: big government divides and conquers

The largest big government intervention in years was the passage of the Affordable Care Act. The bill raised questions on everything from individual liberty to separation of church and state.

Under Obama we saw the dark side of big government with scandals like the IRS targeting of conservatives, collection of Associated Press phone records by the Department of Justice, and domestic spying by the NSA.

Divisive questions were raised about the reach of big government that ranged from the abuse of presidential power to the people’s dependence on a welfare state to whether Congress or the president decides who crosses our borders. These questions were never answered.

Now they are Donald Trump’s problem.

Trump: big government for conservative purposes

President Trump has his own ideas about big government from the other side of the ideological fence, but his agenda is endlessly complicated by a GOP that can’t agree to get along.

The failure of conservative big government health care made it appallingly obvious that Republicans are not nearly as adept at running our lives as their Democratic opponents. Now we’re on to tax reform. America will discover where conservatives draw the line between what we keep and what we are forced to hand over to Uncle Sam.

Biden: big government out of control

The 2020 election was the election we could not lose. Too much was at stake. We knew what a Biden presidency would mean for the country.

Trump lost. Now our big government is out of control. Congressional Democrats seek to dominate every aspect of our lives including a new assault on our incomes to fund their activist agenda. If Americans want to know just how damaging big government can be in the hands of progressive ideologues, this is our chance to find out.

Biden talked unity before he took over the White House. He maintains this fiction while the hypocrisy of his policies divides the nation to an extreme we haven't seen since the Civil War.

Civil unrest calls for more control and control calls for more big government. It's a dangerous revolving door that spins faster and faster and while our freedoms vanish and totalitarian rule replaces the promise of liberal solicitude.

What is the Big Government category about?

Big government category topics include privacy, accountability, law enforcement, and authoritarianism. One thing is certain. As long as the people can be convinced that we have something to gain from big government, Washington will keep growing with the excuse that it's all for the people.

Socialized Medicine? Rationing Health Care is the American Way.

July 12, 2012 by Bob Prokop Leave a Comment

Americans have always hated the idea of a national health care system. Socialized medicine is even harder to choke down because it reeks of government control over an area where at best bureaucracy will make things horribly expensive and at worst can kill us. Most Americans have figured out by now that we don’t have to worry about socialized medicine and certainly not universal … [Read more...] about Socialized Medicine? Rationing Health Care is the American Way.

Legislating Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids: Did Everyone Miss The Point?

January 4, 2011 by Bob Prokop Leave a Comment

Sarah Palin raised the ire of critics, and even a few of her allies, after showing up at a Pennsylvania school in November, cookies in hand, to make a point about government regulation in Michelle Obama’s “Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010.” Even conservative Mike Huckabee sided with Team Obama, suggesting that Ms. Palin missed the point of the bill. Huckabee is correct. … [Read more...] about Legislating Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids: Did Everyone Miss The Point?

« Previous Page

Primary Sidebar

DON’T MISS

Bullying By Proxy Is Dangerous Public Policy

May 3, 2025 By Bob Prokop

Trump addressing joint session of Congress March 4, 2025.

Disappearing People Solves Our Disappearing Illegals Problem

April 21, 2025 By Bob Prokop

F-22 Raptor that shot down Chinese spy balloon. Jim Garamond. U.S. Dept. of Defense.

10 Political Hypocrisy Examples to Make You Even Angrier

April 3, 2025 By Bob Prokop

George Washington

Good People Deserve Goodness from Government

March 24, 2025 By Bob Prokop

Nazi pennant. 1945. Eisenhower National Historic Site, courtesy NPS.

Hitler’s Advice to Democrats: We the People are Dumb

February 26, 2025 By Bob Prokop

Sow during her piglets. Photo courtesy USDA ARS.

Democrats Hate Limited Government for One Simple Reason

February 9, 2025 By Bob Prokop

White House with rainbow colors. White House photo by Chuck Kennedy.

American Values Don’t Exist. Trump Just Proved It.

February 6, 2025 By Bob Prokop

Solitary tree with no leaves standing in a field

Politics Will End Humanity. Our Leaders are the Reason.

January 19, 2025 By Bob Prokop

Copyright © 2025 · Magazine Pro on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in