Why a Shrinking Government Is Bad News

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Nice piece of indoctrination there! Start in the preschools, into indoctrination camps..then the universities..thru the media & medical field..get em all lubed up to trust the govt to be God..I call Bull*** :)

loko of AZ 3:01PM May 05, 2012

Rubbish. Our oversized, sludgy, and increasingly oppressive Federal and State governments are precisely the problem that the American economy is plagued with. Government spending does not promote growth, it inhibits it. Our Federal Government needs to have a chainsaw taken to it.

Roger of CA 2:45PM May 05, 2012

WRONG. It takes five taxpayer dollars for every one dollar of government jobs. Thus, a $50,000 government job costs $250,000.
Eliminate that government job, and $250k goes back into the economy, lightening the taxpayer burden and producing economic growth. That's why 400,000 returning soldiers in 1945 produced 30% economic growth.
Only an economic idiot would make this comment.

TomAdkins of TX 1:11PM May 04, 2012