The Future of the USA

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has been since Reagan.

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CHOMSKY: The Reagan and Bush administrations say they are conservatives trying to give a right-wing thrust to the courts. But they are actually statist reactionaries who believe that the courts should control you. That's exactly what's happening in the courts.

QUESTION: And that is quite ironic because conservatives are always preaching about how they are against big government and the intrusion of the state into the lives of citizens.

CHOMSKY: Yes, but the Reaganites are not conservatives. I'm much more conservative than they are. Any old time conservative would turn over in his grave if he could see how the term conservative was used in the 1980s.

http://www.chomsky.info/interviews/1992----.htm

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Government spending has steadily grown for 60 years.

Government spending has nothing to do with statism, krazen.  What you think of as 'private' spending is precisely determined and allocated by the state as well.

No. The government doesn't determine whether or not I choose to buy a pack of gum when I walk home or not (for instance). Obviously, that's an extremely small-scale example, but the same principle applies the further up you go.

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