Big Government Big Winners in Election

Whoever turns out to have been elected the next president, the real winner, as always, will be Big Government.
Salaries will increase all over Washington. New staff positions will be added by the thousands. Budgets for various obscure federal departments and offices will be increased across the board.
Sweeping legislation, of the "reform" variety will be passed on a wave of bi-partisan good feelings. The reforms will all increase the size, scope, jurisdiction and unquestioned majesty and power of the federal government. The liability of the American people will reach new, unprecedented highs.
The new president will announce some song and dance excuse about why he sure enough couldn't "freeze spending" the way he swore to the world and Jesus he was going to, reminiscent of Clinton's "I've worked the hardest I've ever worked in my life, but I just can't give you that middle class tax cut I promised."
Whichever "agent of change" gets elected, be it the Maverick or the Yes We Can guy, the bulk of change they champion will be to make life better for government types and more hideous and bleak for everyone else.
Think I'm wrong? Think your guy is the genuine article? We'll see. I observe that every Tom, Dick and Harry who runs for president promises change. As near as I can recall, the last U.S. president to actually work to make the government smaller than it currently was and to increase freedom was Andrew Johnson.
Johnson, it's significant to note, was absolutely without friends. Not that he deserved any. Lincoln didn't like him; he just chose Johnson for vice president to perpetuate the fantasy, for the sake of European powers, that the United States government was popular in Dixie. Johnson was about the only fairly credible Southerner Lincoln could find who hated Dixie enough to call himself a Republican.
Of course, the Republicans tried everything they could think of to destroy him. He had no friends at all in Washington, and everybody in the South wanted to see him dead. But when the Republicans pressed their rapacious "Reconstruction" agenda, Johnson defended the law as best he was able and blocked many of their most genocidal measures.
I can't think of another president since him who even tried to make the federal behemoth smaller. Parasites never give much thought to the long-term health of the host.
President Reagan spoke the thrilling words, "All too often, government is the problem," and signed bill after bill claiming even more power for the federals. Yes, bless his heart, he cut taxes, but he signed many a budget growing the federal debt, that old hidden tax; inflation.
George Bush promised "Read my lips," and of course, raised taxes and declared a bizarre war against Panama. Bill Clinton barked that "the era of big government is over," then raised taxes. He ran on a get tough with China platform, then championed Most Favored Nation status for China and rammed NAFTA through Congress.
The Gingrich Congress won their majority by promising to rein in Clinton's spending and power grabs, then promptly turned coat and conspired with him to defraud the people by claiming there was a "budget surplus."
Approval polls show that Congress has no better approval rating than has Bush, but no matter. Most Americans pulled the lever for their incumbent yesterday. They don't really want change.
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At this writing it's unknown who would win the various elections. One thing is clear though. United States Senator Elizabeth Dole, R-N.C., has brought the political discourse to a new low.
Imagine referring to us as "Godless Americans." Speak for yourself, Senator. In a recent television campaign, Dole said that her opponent for the U.S. Senate seat, Kay Hagan, was supported by the "Godless Americans." For Dole's information, I'd like to point out that many Americans are Godly folk. Some would say the salt of the earth!
I don't know who she hopes to score points with by taking that approach; presumably she reckons the Al Qaeda vote is up for grabs. I don't know.
She sounds like those crazy protesters you see on TV, chanting "Death to America."
If you think we Americans are so Godless, Mrs. Dole, then you can get out!
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If you don't eat enough limes, you'll get the scurvy, but if you eat too many limes, then you get lime disease. It's really hard to get exactly the right amount of limes in one's diet. There should be a federal program to make sure we eat just the right amount of limes. I'll bet the federals, being famous for their efficiency, can get the program up and running for, say, about $380 million. That's Change We Need, by golly!