(10-12-2017 12:44 PM)swagsurfer11 Wrote:  That's what people want. People want Medicare, clean air/water, a minimum wage, safe cars/planes/trains, strong military, nice interstate highways and all the trappings of a large gov't.

If you're going to articulate how stupid the public is do it completely.

They want medicare ... but they don't want to pay for it.
They want clean air and water ... but they don't want to accept their personal role in achieving that.
They want a minimum wage ... but they want more jobs at the same time.
They want safe cars and planes and trains ... but they want them to be cheap and reliable.
They want a strong military ... but they don't want to pay for it or insist other nations help pay into it for the benefits they receive from it.
They want a nice interstate highway system ... bu they don't want to pay for it or deal with construction.

Yes, the world including the United States if full of infantile morons screaming about all the things they want that they simultaneously don't want to pay for or have any personal responsibility and accountability in making actually happen. Tell me something I don't know.

And lastly all of this does NOTHING to change the validity of a small government argument. In fact, to me, it only enhances it. Why concentrate enormous federal power when the people voting on it don't know their *** from a hole in the ground?