I notice a lot of conservatives like this truly strange idea of "small government is good government". I don't think government should be bigger than it needs to be but a "small government" means ineffectual oversight of financial systems, an impoverished EPA and a blighted FDA. It means no increase in funding for NIH and NSF-- which, given inflation and the increase of costs, means funding reduction. It means a reduction in NASA, implying not only a reduction in the space program but also reduces the possibility of improvement in air traffic control.
Personally, I don't have a problem with a non-small government. I'm in Teddy Roosevelt's camp on this one: Government should be big enough to manage those entities it must regulate. Small government means societal control by entities larger than government: Citibank, Lehman Brothers, Bank of America, Enron.
Yeah, those were real success stories.
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