miga Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > re: "Big State"...here's a handful from the > quickest of googles, used as a phrase. > > http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/david-cam > eron/9171481/Brick-by-brick-were-tearing-down-the- > big-state.html > http://www.reform.uk/reformer/the-return-of-the-bi > g-state-incomes-policy-and-the-trimmings/ > http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/9 > 559810/Douglas-Carswell-Bad-news-for-the-big-state > .html > http://www.jubilee-centre.org/all-in-this-together > -the-big-state/ > > Or do you mean that it never annoys you when you > see this frequently used phrase? No. I meant that those who bang on about big Pharma, big business, big etc seem to be anti-big apart from the state which they seem happy to run almost anything, dictate how we live our lives, think they know best how our money is spent etc. big is bad...apart from government where suddenly big transforms into efficient, benevolent, paternalistic, force of good and dictator of what's best for the likes of us