Big Government Has Nothing to do With God

Moral crusader, war cheerleader, Christian jihadist and Republican Senator from South Carolina, Jim DeMint, thinks the bigger government gets the less people rely on God.

"I’ve said it often and I believe it – the bigger government gets, the smaller God gets. As people become more dependent on government, less dependent on God."

This is truly interesting.  No one president in the last 75 years has increased the size of government more than George W. Bush.

As president, Bush instituted at least 8 tax payer funded government bailouts of private industry totaling over $1 trillion-- the largest government interference of the private sector in American history.  He created the largest bureaucracy in the world with the Dept. of Homeland Security.  And then turned around and created the second largest with No Child Left Behind.  He placed FEMA in charge of every disaster, flood, snowfall and street shoveling job in America.  He single handily issued over 1,200 signing statements directly exempting himself from federal laws.  He also enacted the largest expansion of Medicare since its inception.  A huge government expansion of health care that is completely unfunded and adds nearly a trillion dollars to the deficit.

It's actually very hard to overstate just how much government grew under George Bush and the Republicans.

In terms of fiscal policy, his two terms were a disaster for this country.  Upon entering office the federal budget was running the largest surpluses in history. Within his first 6 months in office, Bush turned it into a deficit.  By the time he left, the deficit was $1.4 trillion-- the largest in American history.  Not one single policy, initiative or war was ever funded or paid for.  In addition, the Dow lost half its value. His two terms witnessed a net of zero job creation in 8 years-- the worst on record. And GDP grew at its slowest pace since the Great Depression.

By the time he finally left office, government was larger and running a trillion dollar deficit.  Unemployment had doubled, GDP was shrinking, and we were still fighting two endless wars that were as unpopular as he was.  It was the worst two terms in American history.

Yet during all that, Senator Jim DeMint never said one word.  He never complained Bush was replacing religion with Government.  He never said a word.  He supported all of it. But now that Bush is gone and Republicans are no longer in power, God's servant is worried.  Sounds fake doesn't it?  That's because he is.  Wouldn't you think someone who is so concerned about government replacing God would have spoken up during that time?  Not when it's Republicans doing it.  According to DeMint and his fraudulent ideology, all of it was okay, if not ordained by God since it was the GOP.

Typical response from a Republican, yes.  But it's more than that.  They do it every time.  It's not that someone DeMint didn't vote for is in office.  It's that someone who hates God and loves Government is destroying our country.  This is always the case even though the Republican record of governance is of nothing but growing government and creating huge deficits.  This has nothing to do with God except for Republicans use it to scare the American people.