The US Presidential Inauguration thread

[Words Of Wisdom]

mrstickball said:

Words Of Wisdom said:

mrstickball said:

Smaller government usually makes for more effective government.

You can do more with more people.  Two people working their hardest can't achieve what ten people working their hardest can all else equal.  If the government is truly effective, it will grow or shrink in size to meet the demands placed on it.

A lot of folks currently associate more people with sloopiness, laziness, and overspending.  "Big government" carries that negative connotation with it.  In reality, being large doesn't create laziness... lazy people do.  A smaller government isn't necessarily better, but a more efficient government would be.

Your correct, but that's not the reality of the situation. The larger the business, the easier it is for employees (and government employees are still that - employees) to become corrupt, innefficent, and unable to handle their task.

If the entity is smaller, it will demand more from it's workforce since it allows for better management. Government is the same way. If the 'best and brightest' go to the Government to become leaders, what happens when they recruit beyond the best & brightest?

It seems like people just can't escape the pitfall in thinking that large must equal corrupt/inefficient.  I guess it's just too hard to imagine.