Other popular signs among the teabaggers were calls to shrink the government. Presumably none of the people holding these signs voted for Al Gore.
Remember that one of Gore’s first tasks as vice-president was to lead the . When the report was released in 1993 Gore and the team he assembled recommended cutting over a quarter-million salary lines from the federal government, and suggested over $100 billion in cuts. Not surprisingly, he even about it.
Congress never followed through on most of these cuts because the Gingrich-led House that came in soon afterwards was only interested in increasing Republican power, not in making a smaller, more efficient federal government.
Gore persisted, and the National Performance Review became the .
The Clinton/Gore administrations moved the US from debt to surplus, and were the first to shrink the size of government in generations. If the teabaggers sincerely wanted smaller government they’d recognize that Obama is drawing from many of the same economic and organizational policies of the Clinton/Gore administrations.
Under Republican leadership the size of the federal government ballooned. As the conservative -
“George W. Bush rode into Washington almost eight years ago astride the horse of smaller government. He will leave it this winter having overseen the biggest federal budget expansion since Franklin Delano Roosevelt seven decades ago.”
The best way to shrink the size of government is to stop voting for Republicans.
