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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Lane3 who wrote (6158)12/5/2005 1:17:21 PM
From: TigerPaw  Read Replies (1) of 542501
 
First of all, you can't really take the wikipedia as the final word on anything. It is not only a living document, but it is also the target of rouge editorials. It is a useful starting place for deeper studies.

Grover Norquist is the champion of the small government movement.
thenation.com
And since late 1998 Norquist has been George W. Bush's unofficial liaison to so-called movement conservatives.
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"My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years," he says, "to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub."



That's not so say that Grover Norquist is the leader of the neocons, but he is kind of a department head for government size and tax policies. (William Kristol is pretty much the leader since he has the ability to place his opinion above all others).

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As always when I summarize the goals of the neocons into a single sentence, it is necessarily a generalization, and all generalizations are false. The majority of neocon followers don't care a whit about the size of government per/se. What they care about is multi-generational wealth accumulation. They want to establish a trust or portfolio that will generate income for themselves and their offspring, essentially forever. They would rather buy services with that income than have the government, and it's power to forclose, supply them and run up any sort of cost. They have theirs, and so a land of opportunity is no longer necessary.

TP
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