Ma'am;...What exactly is your argument for small government???When the government cannot regulate the financial sector, and cannot really keep a good eye on people like Madoff; how could they get one bit smaller and be worth any taxes???. I don't care how big they have to be if they realize their goals as outlined in the preamble of the constitution; but if those goals have been lost to the government, it should not exist at all...Do we need one more meat inspector, or peanut plant inspector, or airline inspector??? Your answer might depend upon whether you have ever been hurt  by a lack of inspectors...My kid is rich, and he can afford to test his children's toys for lead... So does that mean the poor are on their own???  Of all of the stupid nonsense that runs out of the mouths of reactionaries, the small government is the greatest; because they clearly mean they do not want to be governed...They want to prey upon the poor and working people... They do not want to worry about pollution or poison in the environments...They want to throw people in prison, or build up the police and military to protect their loot; but they do not want to be concerned for the human or civil rights of the prisoners, or of the accused because that might add to the cost of government... It is self serving, and I hope this depression teaches all the people about how self serving the right is in regard to the size of government... You have robbed us blind, and done it because government allowed it to happen...It submitted to your ideology of less government, and less pretection for the public from government...You maximized profit, and maximized the theft....Now that you all belong in prison; why should you want a government large enough and effective enough to throw a net over you??? I'd feel the same in your shoes.... As long as you are left free you will run your mouth, and when you can no longer lie for a living, you will run away... Why not run away, and enjoy your freedom while you still have it??? Consider how the peaceful poor might turn on you if the whole stupid system goes down the pot??? Does that thought make you feel brave, or crazy???? . .Thanks...Sweeney