"Son," he said without preamble, "never trust a man who doesn't drink, because he's probably a self-righteous sort, a man who thinks he knows right from wrong all the time. Some of them are good men, but in the name of goodness, they cause most of the suffering in the world. They're the judges, the meddlers. And, son, never trust a man who drinks but refuses to get drunk. They're usually afraid of something deep down inside, either that they're a coward or a fool or mean and violent. You can't trust a man who's afraid of himself. But sometimes, son, you can trust a man who occasionally kneels before a toilet. The chances are that he is learning something about humility and his natural human foolishness, about how to survive himself. It's damned hard for a man to take himself too seriously when he's heaving his guts into a dirty toilet bowl.
Limits and Constraints of "Small Government"
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Originally Posted by GGT
Government agencies only get noticed when they fail, and they fail for all kinds of reasons, some being they don't have the required resources to do their job, some being whatever administration's in power is actively preventing them from doing their job and others having to do with revolving staffing doors with the industries they're regulating leading to corruption and apathy. There's all kinds of ways things go wrong in giant bureaucracies, and to wipe away all the detail, all the thinking, and declare "goverment's too big, that's why" then cut funding is a formula to guarantee failure. (and justify outsourcing more key government functions ---- win/win for conservatives... 
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For the forum members here, who often talk about Smaller Government is Better (simply because it's smaller?)!
