Lib's fit their label though. One of the reasons why it is given.
Let's just pull it apart. If you have a small public sector, then you will also have a large private sector filling the gap. This is a Lib's nightmare.....
Conversely, if you have a large govt., you will have a much smaller private sector (think engine of your car). This is a Lib's goal...... a goal towards inefficiency..... this is why lib's are an economic farce...... truly a farce.
Government intervention does not necessarily mean MORE government, or a LARGER government.
There you go, still trying to define liberals based on an ideal from decades ago.
YES, back in the day "liberals" wanted things like social security, medicare, etc. Naturally that meant expanding the government to create agencies to handle those programs.
We have those things now, and there's no need for more players on the team. What we need now is for those players to perfect their game, or at least improve it.
Let's say it together! Government intervention doesn't mean bigger government!
The only potentially good thing that could come out of expanded government is more jobs, and at least they'd be semi-stable and come with decent benefits.
Liberal:
adjective 1. favorable to progress or reform, as in political or religious affairs. 2. (often initial capital letter
) noting or pertaining to a political party advocating measures of progressive political reform. 3. of, pertaining to, based on, or advocating liberalism. 4.
favorable to or in accord with concepts of maximum individual freedom possible, esp. as guaranteed by law and secured by governmental protection of civil liberties. 5. favoring or permitting freedom of action, esp. with respect to matters of personal belief or expression: a liberal policy toward dissident artists and writers. 6. of or pertaining to representational forms of government rather than aristocracies and monarchies. 7. free from prejudice or bigotry; tolerant: a liberal attitude toward foreigners. 8. open-minded or tolerant, esp. free of or not bound by traditional or conventional ideas, values, etc. 9. characterized by generosity and willingness to give in large amounts: a liberal donor. 10. given freely or abundantly; generous: a liberal donation. 11. not strict or rigorous; free; not literal: a liberal interpretation of a rule. 12. of, pertaining to, or based on the liberal arts. 13. of, pertaining to, or befitting a freeman.
noun 14. a person of liberal principles or views, esp. in politics or religion. 15. (often initial capital letter
) a member of a liberal party in politics, esp. of the Liberal party in Great Britain.
Related forms:
lib⋅er⋅al⋅ly, adverb
lib⋅er⋅al⋅ness, noun
Synonyms:
1.
progressive. 7.
broad-minded, unprejudiced. 9. beneficent, charitable, openhanded, munificent, unstinting, lavish. See
generous. 10. See
ample.
Antonyms:
1. reactionary. 8. intolerant. 9, 10. niggardly.
lib·er·al 
(lĭb'ər-əl, lĭb'rəl)
adj.
- Not limited to or by established, traditional, orthodox, or authoritarian attitudes, views, or dogmas; free from bigotry.
- Favoring proposals for reform, open to new ideas for progress, and tolerant of the ideas and behavior of others; broad-minded.
- Of, relating to, or characteristic of liberalism.
- Liberal Of, designating, or characteristic of a political party founded on or associated with principles of social and political liberalism, especially in Great Britain, Canada, and the United States.
- Tending to give freely; generous: a liberal benefactor.
- Generous in amount; ample: a liberal serving of potatoes.
- Archaic Permissible or appropriate for a person of free birth; befitting a lady or gentleman.
- Obsolete Morally unrestrained; licentious.
- Tending to give freely; generous: a liberal benefactor.
- Generous in amount; ample: a liberal serving of potatoes.
- Archaic Permissible or appropriate for a person of free birth; befitting a lady or gentleman.
- Obsolete Morally unrestrained; licentious.
- Not strict or literal; loose or approximate: a liberal translation.
- Of, relating to, or based on the traditional arts and sciences of a college or university curriculum: a liberal education.
- Archaic Permissible or appropriate for a person of free birth; befitting a lady or gentleman.
- Obsolete Morally unrestrained; licentious.
n.
- A person with liberal ideas or opinions.
- Liberal A member of a Liberal political party.
[Middle English,
generous, from Old French, from Latin līberālis, from līber,
free; see leudh- in Indo-European roots.]
lib'er·al·ly adv.,
lib'er·al·ness n.Synonyms: These adjectives mean willing or marked by a willingness to give unstintingly:
a liberal backer of the arts; a bounteous feast; bountiful compliments; a freehanded host; a generous donation; a handsome offer; a munificent gift; fond and openhanded grandparents. See Also Synonyms at
broad-minded.
Antonym: stingy
liberal
A descriptive term for persons, policies, and beliefs associated with
liberalism.
liberal (adj.)
c.1375, from O.Fr. liberal "befitting free men, noble, generous," from L. liberalis "noble, generous," lit. "pertaining to a free man," from liber "free," from PIE base *leudheros (cf. Gk. eleutheros "free"), probably originally "belonging to the people" (though the precise semantic development is obscure), from *leudho- "people" (cf. O.C.S. ljudu, Lith. liaudis, O.E. leod, Ger. Leute "nation, people"). Earliest reference in Eng. is to the liberal arts (L. artes liberales; see art (n.)), the seven attainments directed to intellectual enlargement, not immediate practical purpose, and thus deemed worthy of a free man (the word in this sense was opposed to servile or mechanical). Sense of "free in bestowing" is from 1387. With a meaning "free from restraint in speech or action" (1490) liberal was used 16c.-17c. as a term of reproach. It revived in a positive sense in the Enlightenment, with a meaning "free from prejudice, tolerant," which emerged 1776-88. Purely in ref. to political opinion, "tending in favor of freedom and democracy" it dates from c.1801, from Fr. libéral, originally applied in Eng. by its opponents (often in Fr. form and with suggestions of foreign lawlessness) to the party favorable to individual political freedoms. But also (especially in U.S. politics) tending to mean "favorable to government action to effect social change," which seems at times to draw more from the religious sense of "free from prejudice in favor of traditional opinions and established institutions" (and thus open to new ideas and plans of reform), which dates from 1823.
okay, okay.......tranquilo (spanish for calm down)...
