That was a refreshing speech by a very forgotten politician, it's a shame Lyndon Johnson won the election, Goldwater could have greatly reduced the government's power before LBJ went and quadrupled it. :(
The modern Presidency is basically a powerbroker position.
He literally buys votes with the coin of the realm-government spending.
Very few votes can be bought within the system for elimination of programs unless there is some equivalent offset ie-if the education bureaucracy thought more money could be made with home schooling you would see the public school budget plummet like a sack of potatos out of a shipyard cargo net.
Best regards,
What makes you think Barry Goldwater is forgotten?