[AppauledAtAppeasementConservat]

"...but I have a strong belief that the strength of the government will continue to increase with every administration, no matter if it is a democrat or republican and no matter who is the majority in Congress..."

I think so too but it is about controlling the growth. I think the only way negative growth in government most likely could only occur is with a decrease in population...a huge decrease. Not much to cause that short of an un-godly catastrophe.

Best thing to hope for is greater efficiency in gov't to control it's growth.

[yonif]

The only way the government will have negative growth is when corporations and organizations which employ thousands of Americans begin taking the role of providing services usually provided and or are believed by some that the government should provide. This includes health-care, mail services, education funds for dependents, home security services, etc. It is then that the government will lose its face as being integral to people's lives, and business will take on many of the roles of the goverment, those businesses which employ thousands of people. It is then that the country will go back in a sort of the circle, where the government's most important job will be foreign affairs and defense.