# "Get government off your back and out of the way!" Is it still 1988?

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-government-off-your-back-and-out-of-the-way-is-it-still-1988/463717
**Category:** Great Debates
**Created:** [September 15, 2008, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-government-off-your-back-and-out-of-the-way-is-it-still-1988/463717 "2008-09-15T16:53:56Z")
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### Author: ![IdahoMauleMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/71c47a/32.png) [@IdahoMauleMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IdahoMauleMan)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2008, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-government-off-your-back-and-out-of-the-way-is-it-still-1988/463717/58 "2008-09-17T01:21:51Z")

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> [@Weirddave](#):
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> Well, didn’t the discussion kinda answer your question? I’m not a Republican, but I am a McCain supporter, and it certainly resonates with me. It doesn’t sound old and dated, it sounds like the values we should be returning to, in other words good change rather than bad change.

What he said.

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