GWB is a neo-conservative. AFAIK these neo-cons were very much inspired by a marxist American thinktank. Is that right? That could explain GWB’s trend to increase gov’t.

Cutting back on gov’t in all areas except national security. That sounds a bit like a totallitarian regime though, a “democratic totallitarian regime”, maybe. I can understand why Americans are afraid of their gov’t though, because it scares the sh!t out of people by all kinds of terrorist threats. A gov’t should not scare its people, in fact, it should call them down.

Cutting back everytthing except national security couldn’t be farther from a totaliarian regime. Cutting taxes and limiting the inherently ineffecient and wasteful spending of the government does everything to increase production and overall wealth. National security is a major concern right now, because priviously our security forces were NOT dealing with what is now a big threat. therefore, he’s spending money to straighten things out–communication between different organizations being a BIG issue.

Americans are not AFRAID of their government. It is our job to oversee the government, and ensure it does not get too big and overpowering. That is why things like the patriot act get put under a microscope–people want to make sure that their rights will not be infringed.

I don’t believe a government should “calm it’s people down”. For me, a government should regulate certain transactions, enforce the federal law, and ultimately, it’s PRIMARY responsibility is to protect us. The US military is the MAIN purpose of the US federal government. American citizens would get along just fine with out the fed. gov.–it’s the military we need.

We don’t need the government to spend tax money on midnight basketball, wasteful school spending, and lining the pockets of unnecessary federal employees.