Lies about smaller government

It used to be said that conservatives stand for smaller government. Hogwash....
Our government under Bush and the republican controlled congress is bigger than it has ever been in history.
The additions of the Department of Homeland (insecurity) Security and the Department of Faith (only Christians need apply) Based Initiatives are two examples of how much larger our government has become.

In an attempt to make our military less "government" Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld have tried to privatize it. There are actually mercenaries hired as private contractors in Iraq. These mercenaries do not take any kind of oath concerning code of conduct. So basically we have non military American citizens hired by our government over in Iraq torturing and killing Iraqis. Our government opted for the mercenaries instead of sending the proper number of real U.S. troops which could have insured that the job got done right. Of course for political reasons Bush didn't want too many U.S. troops deployed. It might have been more difficult for him to have gotten re elected. And that assumes he was actually "elected" in2000 and also assumes that if the voting irregularities in Ohio in 2004 had not happened he still would have won Ohio.

There is a second issue, as I see it, about not sending enough troops to get the job done right. That is that Bush and Cheney could let their close friends at Haliburton make even more profit off this war by allowing them to hire the mercenaries. More money in friends pockets and less political risk to Bush/Cheney. Of course if they could completely privatize our military it would be to them as if they had reduced the size of government.

If they were able to reduce the size of government through their desired means we would suffer. Getting rid of regulatory agencies like the EPA, FDA and the SEC just to mention three and expecting clean air, safe food and ethical CEO's is like outlawing abortion and expecting a zero abortion rate or; cutting funding for education and expecting more middle and lower class students to attend college or; like invading a sovereign nation that posed no threat to us, had no weapons of mass destruction, had no ties to 911 and expecting that there would be no future negative repercussions.....Hogwash!