On 2009-01-09, Tim McNamara <timmcn@bitstream.net> wrote:
> In article <49669478.3D4D96F7@hotmail.com>,
> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Tim Howard wrote:
>>
>> > Oregon looks at taxing mileage instead of gasoline
>>
>> The basic problem is that government in much of the west (not just
>> the USA) is now out of control and any pretence at democracy is only
>> nominal.
>>
>> The events of the last year or so have convinced me that only a full
>> scale revolution can restore peoples' rights and stop government
>> poking its nose into stuff it has no business in.
>
> How can that be? The right wing has controlled at least two branches of
> the US government for 26 of the past 28 years. They've told us that
> government isn't the solution to the problem, it is the problem. They
> shrunk the size of government (just ask them), eliminated reams of
> burdensome regulations, they've spent billions of dollars protecting
> delicate corporations from the hoi polloi. Are you saying that the
> Republicans were *wrong?*

Republicans are little different from democrats. They are also statists
and have expanded the size and scope of government greatly. Then again
you seem to know at least the later. Shattering people's illusions is
another story entirely.