BIG VERSES LITTLE

In the simplest context this is an easy contrast understand. It is all about size. And you can be sure, outside of any salacious relevance, that there are plenty of places where size definitely matters.

I don't care how hard a person tries to explain how some dinky economy car has benefits over the gas guzzles, I still think if you could put the issue of money aside, people would for ego sake go for the luxury car. I haven't notice their sales disappearing just because of gas prices either.

Naturally, big is only good if it is a positive. Having a big zit on your nose would not be a choice for most people. Nor would getting stuck with a big debt. We might enjoy all the big crap we can buy in return for the debt, but otherwise big debt is not a cause for smiles.

Now we come to the basic difficulty from my point of view in terms of big and little. That is in the area of politics.

On the one hand we want BIG benefits from the government. However, we want LITTLE taxes to pay for them. Which of course doesn't make the two realistic.

In the same thinking vein, we want BIG government in terms of having a military than can kick the butt of everyone who pisses us off or in terms of cops to fight the bad guys, but we want LITTLE government in terms of telling us want to do.

Realistically the two will never go together. And regardless of how silly such notions are, you can be pretty sure people will still have those kinds of expectations.

The real fun part is trying to mesh that insanity with what government does and how one as a politician attempts to make it all have some logic without totally disappointing people. All of which is normally more than a little impossible, but that is why politicians have to work so hard thinking up new lies to explain how a screw up is in reality a miracle.

Which is okay since I sort of like to keep my edge in the fabrication department anyway. If I allow myself to get too rusty it just makes things extra hard during the times when I have to make all those campaign promises.

When it is all over though, I just sit back and give thanks that most people are as a rule too disinterested in the whole government process they never want to know the details. So that is one thing I count as a blessing. It really makes my life so much easier when people don't ask too many questions.

And the best part of it is knowing how people can be counted on to always deal with issue the same way. Thank god they have big egos, but little common sense. That works so much better with lies!