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Originally Posted by GatorB
Oh BS. Jefferson was all about this "small government" talk BEFORE he became President. After he became president he expanded the federal governments role greatly. Hell he's made the Louisianna Purchase. Which he himself didn't thnk was within his rights constitutionally but he did it anyways.
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Jefferson did believe in small government for domestic issues, deferring to states governments, but also believed in a larger body to handle foreign issues. The Louisianan Purchase, was just to good of a deal to pass up. A country needs to think about having the resources to expand and the purchase was just a sound call on his part.
As for the founding fathers, Jefferson was not the only founding father, and using him as the sole reason to yelp "Oh BS" is kind of silly. Many of The Founding Fathers if juxtaposed into today's society would ally themselves with the Libertarians.
Sure there'd be some that could fall into the democratic party, some that would fall in the republican party, but to make a blanket statement like, "FACT: All of the US founding fathers would be supporting the Democrats today." Is just wrong.
As for the current state of politics...well, one can only hope the founding fathers would not approve of what's going on...as for me, I don't approve of the way partisan politics is ruining America. Democrats, Republicans, they both care more about their party then they do about the nation.