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Monday, June 22, 2009

Not Even Close

The next time you hear a conservative tell you that our government is close to socialism, show them this.













And then gently direct them to the nearest mental institution.

4 comments:

Dan said...

Yes, Mark, but remember; "Facts have a Liberal bias."

There is no room for the truth in conservative politics, only fear.

sara said...

No shit. Looking at this graph, one has to wonder what the fuck they are talking about?

MFH0 said...

If you take that chart from one year ago, compare it to that one, you will certainly notice a trend.

This chart is a bit like standing on the inside of a crowd being fired upon, calculating the number of those hit, and concluding that, because the number is small at that time, there's no impending danger.

My concern is not that we "are socialist." My concern is that this administration is taking actions which identify a particular direction - and that direction is looking particularly like it supports large scale government intervention.

Six months ago, there were.. looks like about eighteen less Czars than there are today. That indicates increased regulation - and not even the kind that we're constitutionally setup for. No, Czars are like any cabinet-elected group, in that they are not entirely beholden to the system of checks and balances.

juris imprudent said...

If you want the real irony it was Bush that kick-started this, and Obama is at this point just helping to keep it rolling.

But hey, y'all believe in change, so why question a good thing when it goes your way, right?