(CNN) Twenty five years ago, Bill Clinton, a Democratic president, stood in front of Congress and famously/infamously declared that "the era of big government is over." This week, Joe Biden, a Democratic president, traveled to Pittsburgh to declare that the era of big government is back -- with a vengeance. -- and go back to January 1996, when Bill Clinton, in his State of the Union speech, proclaimed that the era of big government was over. And Clinton wanted to make sue the country knew he wasn't the free-spending, big government liberal that he knew Republicans would seek to cast him as in the 1996 campaign. Consider what he said just before the "era of big government is over" line:"We know big government does not have all the answers.

Source: CNN April 01, 2021 14:48 UTC