People say they want smaller government. Presidents usually try to find a way to claim that somehow their administration has resulted in smaller government. By this, they usually mean the number of government jobs.
Government employment probably has gone down. But people, keep in mind, the government is still doing lots of things, but instead of paying someone $60,000 a year to do something, that work has now been privatized and we pay some contractor $400,000 instead. You think that's progress?
This works out quite well for private contractors, most of whom are 1%-ers. Which means that "smaller government" really means another way of shoveling taxpayer dollars into the hands of the wealthy.
The people who advocate for smaller government are, generally speaking, no friend of the working man or woman.
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