IS GOVERNMENT TOO BIG OR JUST TOO INEFFICIENT?

The magazine REASON ran a great article on why government is too big.  The unfortunate part is that it focused on too few of the variables as much research often does.  To read this article, click here.

In typical Republican form, a 'Unionectomy' was decided as a solution, starting with Gov. Walker in Wisconsin and fanning out through out several other states.

From an article in the Free Enterprise Magazine on 7-25-11 as the fight against unions spreads to the States:  "As unions push the federal government to grant them more power and influence over the economy, the opposite is happening in the states. Many states have worked on legislation to promote job growth, new business formation, and fiscal solvency by reining in both public sector and private sector unions. The U.S. Chamber’s Workforce Freedom Initiative (WFI) has partnered with several state chambers on this effort."

Like most of our collective problems, few are simple.  Freshman Representatives should not think they are qualified to slash budgets of programs about which they cannot be truly  informed as to whether they are will run, necessary to their recipients, and what the fall out would be if they were underfunded.  If legislators were to form a task force with each member taking one program with financial support from the government and do an in-depth study as to its finances, how spent, and what the results of those expenditures have achieved.

Instead, the bunch wants to slash and burn in ignorance.