Fundamentalists of big government (2)

Fundamentalists of big government use ever more desperate arguments to defend their deity. For example, we've recently read the following:

The collapse of the economy in the Great Recession gave us the starkest, most painful evidence imaginable of the failure of laissez-faire economics and the destructive force of the alliance of big business and government against the interests of ordinary Americans.

I guess we're not supposed to notice the glaring internal contradiction in that sentence.