The problem was not deregulation, it was piss-poor regulation. Now we’re getting saddled with craptastic government bloat.

Anyone want to see what America will look like in four years? Come by San Francisco and you’ll see.

The problem was not deregulation, it was piss-poor regulation. Now we’re getting saddled with craptastic government bloat. Anyone want to see what America will look like in four years? Come by San Francisco and you’ll see.

As for how government is getting bigger … the $700 billion bailout alone is giving government all kinds of new powers. Add that to powers enacted in the Patriot Act and the formation of Homeland Security and you have the government handling a lot of new priorities on top of its increasing expenditures on old-school entitlements and subsidies. Both Obama and McCain talk about what new regulations/controls they will add and what new entilements/subsidies they will create but neither is really saying whether or not they’ll clear out the brush, let alone what brush they think needs clearing.

IMO, there’s too much focus on adding powers and not enough focus on appropriately managing those powers.

As to your post I mostly agree. What I don’t understand however – and I suspect that this is actually a lack of research on my part and would love it if you did a post on it – is how exactly how is the government growing even bigger? There might be a handful more agencies and obviously taxpayer equity in the market but how big is government really now as opposed to say a year ago?

And now all the finger-pointing, panic and knee-jerk reactions with the financial crisis. Where is any evidence that Obama/Reid/Pelosi have a clue about prioritizing and a “commitment to creating well-targeted government services rather than…..” the proven “oppressive government we are building towards?” I could “tolerate” a ray of hope in that direction!