You are by calling any action by them you perceive to be of some benefit as “good”, and by saying so implying that the “good” thereof referred to could not have come by any other means. Since those actions were means by which they attained more power for themselves, then the actions and their results are themselves evil. One has to be of greater intestinal fortitude than to accept anything that causes ease (note the difference from “good”) from any source.
Nope, those aren’t my requirements. It has to ACTUALLY accomplish something, and it has to accomplish something that wasn’t being done by the private sector and seems rather unlikely to be done by the private sector (as much as you might wish it the private sector was NEVER going to make the highway system, much the the train system from the century before), and it needs to be a legitimate function of government as spelled out in the Constitution. That’s actually a limited scope. But one must be smart enough to understand that it is not an empty set, that indeed government CAN accomplish things the private sector can’t.