[The_Reader_David]

Make no mistake about this: Governments NEVER shrink. They NEVER say we need less intrusion into the lives of the people who pay for their existence. And they NEVER really roll back their programs.

It follows immediately from this observation and the fact that is is always easier to destroy something than to create it, that government is itself a form of destruction. From which also follows Jefferson's dictum: He governs best who governs least.

[VAarea]

Read the treatise “Destruction and Creation” appendix in Robert Coram’s biography of “John Boyd - The Fighter Pilot who Changed the World”, Back Bay Books, 2002. You’ll have an appreciation of what is happening — the Second Law of Thermodynamics at work. By the way, a great book — the fastest 450 page read ever!