----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Pugliese" <michael098762001 at earthlink.net>
<URL: http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20040531&s=press >
Big Gov't Bush they call him.
> ...While there are plenty of Republicans who would take issue with
> Prestowitz's definition of the term, a growing number of conservative
> thinkers and policy-makers have begun to echo this view, as thumbing
> through the pages of the conservative press makes clear.
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"...the issue is not more versus less government [or big government versus small government], but rather to whose interests the government gives effect. Thus, a movement from more to less stringent requirements for the emissions of polluting firms is not a move from more to less government ['deregulation'], but a change in the structure of rights from pollutees to polluters. The big versus small government arguments are rhetorical devices, persuasive mechanisms reflective of and reinforcing traditional Western liberal ideology. The terms 'regulation' and deregulation' are rhetorical reflections of this ideology, since whenever rights are being changed, one party is being 'regulated' and the other 'deregulated.' [Steven Medema "Another Look at the Problem of Rent Seeking" JEI vol. xxv #4, 1050]