Shrinking governmnet necesarily involves a non-inteventionist foreign policy. Our current foreign policy is so expensive, that we need the IRS. However, the huge unconstitutional tax system that we currently have is not even enough to pay for it, so we borrow the money — but even that is not enough to pay for it. So, we print money to finance the wars. This unconstitutional federal reserve system of printing money out of thin air causes massive inflation. There is a strong link between foreign policy and economic policy, and that is why I believe Ron Paul is the only real small governmnet conservative in this race.
“I Agree with you. Is downsizing DC a good idea? Hell yeah! Will it ever happen? Hell no.”
Thank you. There is nothing I would love more than a MUCH smaller government. I have determined that is against the nature of the beast. Government lives to grow. I have worked for the government and the most important thing to the civil service manager is a big, fat budget. It’s a symbol of power and worth in those quarters. You don’t get a big fat budget by cutting back. I’ve had thousands of dollars of equipment I didn’t need or want forced on me because we went in under budget and leftover money needed to be spent or our budget may have been cut. So what? We obviously didn’t need the money anyway. That’s not the point, I was told.
The point was to grow government, employ friends and family and run anybody off who questioned it.