can we shrink government?

Doesn't that defeat the purpose of the bicameral congress. It would mean smaller states, like Rhode Island, would have equal representation as California. Considering the Representatives from California, that actually may be a good thing. HAHA. But really, we have a bicameral congress, so the House can distribute representation for the population. We have the Senate so small states don't lose out to bigger states. So the number of people that represent us is fine. One person votes for the President, two Senators, and one Representative. Of course, there are more Representatives, but individuals only get a vote for their district.

The problem is beaurarcies. Various departments, social security, medicare, etc. The other big thing is pork barrel spending. That is how to reduce the size of government.

The other thing is if you "shrink" government too much, then we put too much power in the hands of a few. In fact, I never thought about it before right now, I wonder how many representatives we have in proportion to the actual size of the government. Perhaps we need to have more people representing us. Just thinking out loud, but I wonder what is the ratio of federal votes to federal budget. Seems like the more of our money they spend, the more votes we should have.

No problem with 1 Pres., 1 VP, & 1 Sen., but the House is supposed to be proportional to the population in each state.

So 1 Rep would mean states like North Dak. would have a greater representation in the federal government than say Texas. That would be a fundamental violation of the constitution.

It's not only the number of people living off the productive remnant of society, it's also the scope of power they have usurped. We have the government we deserve, and we deserve the plague we have.

I hope there is a way to shrink the size of government, but unless you use George Washington's method, I think you'll fail.

Getting rid of the representatives wouldn't help at all. The thing that needs to be looked at are the government agencys. The incompetence and inefficiency in those agencies (usually at mid and upper level management) is wher much of the waste is located.

Do you think 1 person to represent ALL of the people in say California would be true representation ? And that 1 person would be so much more susceptable to lobbyists that no one could resist. George said he was for smaller govt. but it has grown in his admin. too.

Do you really think that is where the money is spent? Or do you need an answer to a homework question? What about local, state systems?

Government is water systems, parks, travel, mining, research, medical care, the military, snow removal, highways, etc..............

It wouldnt matter, they are all crooks and liars it would just mean they had a bigger part of the pie.

well, it might be more efficient to just go straight to the death-ray...

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