The debate on how to shrink the federal government is at the core of our problem of government not doing its job.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
The government is just too big, and we have to make it smaller; people are getting lost.
We are shrinking the size of the federal government as a percent of our economy from over 21 percent of the economy to 19 percent of the economy. At the same time, we're growing the private economy.
Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub.
But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government.
The federal government is way larger than it should be.
The fundamental challenge is that people like me simply do not trust the federal government any longer.
We have become bound by a political straitjacket that frames every debate: Too much federal government. Yet our forefathers forged this system for us. The federal government can accomplish what the states, acting alone or even in concert, cannot.
Laying the groundwork for smaller, smarter government, especially at the federal level, is going to be tough. But it is essential for getting us back on the path to long-term prosperity.
Memo to Congress: America's problem is not that government is too small. It's the spending, stupid!