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The Republicans are campaigning against any further stimulus and they seem to have gained the upper hand by stigmatizing big government.

They are always trying to chip away at big government, big business, big unions, big influence.

Today big government is back with a vengeance: not just as a brute fact, but as a vigorous ideology.

"We have learned from hard experience that big government only begets big government and high unemployment, " he said.

But tea-partiers, who tend to be elderly themselves, are rather keen on that bit of big government.

The bill, they say, is just a sneaky way of achieving standard Democratic big-government aims.

" Removing this constraint on government spending allowed Kennedy to introduce " a new concept of 'big government': the 'problem-eliminator.

Mr Beck is not advocating piety so much as claiming a divine imprimatur for his own prejudice against big government.

Big Business, Big Government, and Big Labor: voters don't seem to like any of them.

Another big government-funded study found that vitamin D deficiency can raise the risk of mental impairment up to fourfold.

Republican leaders have forgotten that the best defense against big-government Democrats is an aggressive offense.

IN 1996, in one of his most celebrated phrases, Bill Clinton declared that "the era of big government is over" .

It's Quality That Counts French government is big government! The State is France's biggest employer and her citizens pay up to 60% tax.

It's a movement dominated for the moment by mistrust of big government and big government health-care plans.

"Big governance" can be just as costly to an economy as big government.

REPUBLICANS walloped Democrats in November, thanks to concern over big government, high taxes and a crippling deficit.

Fourteen years after Bill Clinton announced that the "era of big government is over" , big government is back with a vengeance.

He brought Big Government to its knees and stared down the Soviet Union . And the audience loved it .

But Republican congressmen, furious about big government, have recklessly used it as a political tool to embarrass Barack Obama.

But, as with the appearance of being anti-business, Mr Obama needs to squash his apparent addiction to big government quickly.

The money circulates within the big government pocket.

He certainly would not be a proponent of big government.

The political problem is that US voters, ever wary of big government, have wrongly decided that the first stimulus was an expensive failure.

Secure in his big-government ideology, he admitted that he had never read that literature.

Moderate Democrats are reluctant to pin their names to a bill that conservatives are branding as big government and anti-business.

In Europe the emphasis was on ensuring egalitarian outcomes with big government transfers, particularly after the second world war.

It might also cut through the gridlocked trench warfare between big-government liberals and small-government conservatives.

Conservatives love to hate Nancy Pelosi: for them, she personifies the grasping hand of big government in the Age of Obama.

Longstanding quarrels over the desirability of "big" government continued.

Thanks to a big government shipyard nearby, his plant was able to hire world-class welders.

Big government and a culture of dependency and entitlement is a recipe for disaster.

These particular Republicans see themselves as revolutionaries determined to slash down big government.

This lay behind the policy of "big-government conservatism" (a combination of rewards for conservatives and bribes for Democrats).

The rising cost of health care is primarily the fault of big government politicians and lobbying groups.

Unlike the rich or the poor, it is not obvious whether their economic interests should dispose them to small or big government.

Many had T-shirts supporting different tea party organizations, a grassroots movement which opposes big government in non-military matters.

How could the cry of "Drill, baby, drill" have been beaten by a supposedly big government black guy?

Populism in recent years has been mostly a phenomenon of the right, arrayed against big government, taxes and social permissiveness.

We've had inflationism, corporatism, big government. We've had no. . . we've not had true free market capitalism.

Democrats, by and large, think big corporations are the problem. Republicans think big government is.

But in the Republican view, Obama's new proposals but their consistent adherence to the "big government" policy put more pompous.

Without big government subsidies, electric cars aren't economically competitive with conventional ones.

Official figures also suggest that the proportion of big government projects facing delays or cost overruns has risen.

Fourth, policy paralysis and big government: clearly the disaster requires a unified and coordinated policy response.

Others say the activists are independent thinkers who will oppose any politician they see as supporting big government and big spending.

Big government bond holdings means that interest rate cuts, some of which reduce net interest margins, also pummel treasury returns.

Ron Paul: Oh, I hope so and I hope it's a sign that there is a trend away from more big government.

She argues that through business-bashing and big government programmes, Roosevelt kept unemployment high.

The policies of big-government proponents are running out of steam.

Even Mr Bush's apparently oxymoronic trust in "big-government conservatism" is shared in practice by most Republicans in Congress.

They distrusted big government as something that could be corrupted if not watched carefully.

What seems more certain is this: though virtually no one was calling for it, a new era of big government has arrived.

The new government plans to curtail big government construction projects, a hallmark of the LDP.

Size and state-sector camaraderie allow China's big five state banks to carve up lucrative loans for big government projects.

The eventual IPO, in November, capped a comeback that saw GM claw out of bankruptcy protection after a big government bailout.

I don't believe in big government, and I'm not sure about big business.

Given the desperation of the times, are Americans willing to accept big government to the rescue?

Newt Gingrich called Mr McConnell's last resort "an irresponsible surrender to big government" .

Big-government conservatism has another serious flaw: it fosters corruption.

Mr Cowen suggests that the rise of big government wasn't about belief systems but about technology.

The global economic crisis has shifted the climate of ideas against free markets in favour of Big Government.

Big business and big labour worked with big government to deliver predictable economic growth.

Besides, although Americans say they hate big government, they are also quick to defend their "entitlements" .

But as a way of thinking it is about curbing big government.

All this is more coherent than the big-government conservatism of the Bush years.

More often, though, big government projects stagger into operation but work badly.

Other European countries with big government debts could be next.

The plan means "the era of big government is back, " said Representative John A. Boehner of Ohio, the House Republican leader.

After all, the value of gold does not depend on Big Government.

That strategy could gain in appeal if big government deficits start to press bond yields higher.

In 1996, President Bill Clinton, under siege from the right, declared that "the era of big government is over. "

Traders are also worried about big government debts in Portugal, Spain and Italy.

Mr. Cameron argues that big government has crowded out private enterprise.

The answer from the right is that the economic failures of the Obama administration show that big-government policies don't work.

Industry and Republicans who see them as Big Government meddling want them killed.

They favour "big government mandates" to improve America's health care. He favours freer competition to bring down costs.

Tea Partiers blame big government for the country's economic problems.

Either way, a discussion of nationalsecurity leads naturally back to a criticism of big government, which is thereal problem.

But the response should be, what big-government policies?

Big government, they still believe, can solve their problems.

The bill was cobbled together after a scandal over big government contracts.

The architect of this new era of big government?

In 1996, facing a Republican Congress, he declared that "The era of big government is over. "

Some local restaurant owners say the bill is a sign of big government run amok.

And Big Government, run by people who understand its virtues, is the reason why.

taking your money to subsidize big-government, big-bureaucracy, and big-pork barrel spending.

Got a healthy distrust for a big government.

The answer to austerity is not big government.

But now Brazil is bogged down by the burden of Big Government.

Aren't you all free-market guys who oppose big-government Keynesians?

But the crisis has not made the case for big government per se.

China's economy could also get a boost from a big government stimulus package.

The answer, basically, is Big Government.

Big government and free enterprise have co-existed productively in America since the second world war.

It's not really good or bad (though aspects of the rise of big government have clearly been very bad); it's just the way it is.

His ire is particularly directed at banks and resource companies with big government stakes, such as Petrobras and Petrochina.

And there are also two structural causes of big government.

To many, they are a snaggletoothed symbol of big government gone mad.

A very good damnation of Big Government.

The same principle explains in part why the United States enjoys faster average growth than a big-government country such as France.

Thus the bogey is "big government" .

This is not a stimulus bill. This is a big-politician, big-bureaucrat, big-pork, high-tax, big-government bill.

They have given us big government and they have helped in a significant way to undermine our liberty.

We hate big government. We don't trust the man.

We hate big government.

The basic problem is that proponents of big government require a central bank in order to surreptitiously pay bills without direct taxation.

On another note, on a big picture note, them big government types that shook me down so hard, why is it they wanted you here?

you say corporate greed do you mean big government greed?

Ms Fiorina, for example, aware of Mr DeVore to her right, has been rolling out tea-partyish platitudes against big government.

Leviathan on the Right: How Big-Government Conservatism Brought Down the Republican Revolution

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The interesting point about Mr Norquist is not his hostility to big government

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