[lormand]

Agreed. A small government serves nobody if it results in national suicide.

[mnehring]

The practical aspect of L.Ron, however, isn’t smaller government. It is simply changing the names and some functions of almost every department he promises to eliminate. The Federal Reserve would be replaced with the Federal Gold Reserve, the IRS would be replaced with the Sales Tax Enforcement Agency, the CIA would be replaced with the OSS, the NSA would be replaced with the Office of Signals and Signs, the Department of Education would be replaced with the Department of Educational Transitional Services (department that supposedly would transition the DOE to the States.) The War on Drugs would be replaced with The War on Rehab.

[mnehring]

I forgot the biggest department under L.Ron- The Department of Silly Explanations.

Its sole purpose would be to follow L.Ron around and explain what he ‘really meant’ when he say something or describe the nuances of his actions that the rest of us are to dumb to understand.