Big government has been around for about 500 years. It came about in the 16th century to centralize the tax system and raise enough money to subsidize the NEW world-wide (a new world order) trading organizations, which were the Dutch East India Company and the British East India Company. They were granted monopoly rights to trade goods and human beings (slaves) and bring the wealth back to their country of origin.

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National states which were formed in the 1600s for the acquisition of greater wealth also needed to raise large armies and navies, just as the military continues to grow and expand today, to protect trade. Then a big part of that wealth accrued from the slave trade. Today, it is slave labor of a different kind; underpaid (underemployed) and no benefits. Big governments take what they want. George Bush eliminated the Taliban and installed a government in Afghanistan for the oil pipeline. The war against Iraq will also be for oil. Governments invent reasons which sound just but are hardly that, like Manifest Destiny, to acquire and settle land, like the U.S. did when it took all of the land from the Indians and much of the south west from Mexico. "Big Government" is beneficial to the wealthy and right wing support essential to it's preservation.

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