I’ve come to learn that when they say “small government” they don’t mean that what the government touches is small and focused. They mean that the size is physically small but have the same, if not more, power than a large government body.
I found a similar thing with “small business”. Right wing neo-liberal conservatives love to go on about small business - but their notion of what that is does is very different from ours.
The right wing idea of a “small business” is 100 employees and a $40 million turn over. They aren’t thinking of a general store or a diner that a family has owned for three generations.
Yeah, the small business is just one guy in an office trying to get government contracts which then get subcontracted to the actual people doing the thing, but for less.
When I was a right winger and had some more connections to musicians here in Hungary, some came up with the idea that the government should allocate some funds to pay musicians to use Hungarian made equipment, especially as some popped out in 2010 expecting a “raise in nationalism and love for domestic products”, so they don’t have to use foreign ones in exchange of endorsement money.
The reception? We got called communists for barring them from buying “quality branded” products from the west, and they told us the horrors of buying Tisza shoes instead of Adidas too…
Small Govt. say what?
I’ve come to learn that when they say “small government” they don’t mean that what the government touches is small and focused. They mean that the size is physically small but have the same, if not more, power than a large government body.
Basically they want fascism and a monarchy.
I found a similar thing with “small business”. Right wing neo-liberal conservatives love to go on about small business - but their notion of what that is does is very different from ours.
The right wing idea of a “small business” is 100 employees and a $40 million turn over. They aren’t thinking of a general store or a diner that a family has owned for three generations.
Yeah, the small business is just one guy in an office trying to get government contracts which then get subcontracted to the actual people doing the thing, but for less.
When I was a right winger and had some more connections to musicians here in Hungary, some came up with the idea that the government should allocate some funds to pay musicians to use Hungarian made equipment, especially as some popped out in 2010 expecting a “raise in nationalism and love for domestic products”, so they don’t have to use foreign ones in exchange of endorsement money.
The reception? We got called communists for barring them from buying “quality branded” products from the west, and they told us the horrors of buying Tisza shoes instead of Adidas too…
Small enough to fit snuggly between you and your rights.
There’s no smaller government than a dictatorship