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You said it brother. Dittos.:agree
Interestingly enough I had a conversation last week with a VERY liberal client who also agreed that the federal government was too big. He's an academic and is considering leaving his cushy university job because the standards have been horribly decreased for the purpose of pumping more bodies through a class. His take on it is that there is so much government money out there that the universities are pumping class sizes to utterly ridiculous levels just to maximize their take and it's killing the education staff while leaving the kids adrift. His take is that the kids no longer learn the course material. All they do is learn how to pass multiple choice tests.
I suggested that education (as well as a number of other things) could be better handled at the local level and without government interference and he totally agreed. That was kind of shocking to me since he is DEFINITELY not on my side of many issues.