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When was the last time you heard a candidate for any office say that Government was not big enough and that we need to hire more people? For decades, candidates have campaigned on a platform of reforming Government and eliminating waste and fat. No one seems to have found the cure. Is it because once they get elected it is no longer a priority, and they are not interested in campaigning for reelection with a slogan like "A Fat Government -- But I Am Making It Thinner?" Or is it maybe, just maybe, possible that once they get in office they realize that we do a pretty good job, and the morbid obeisity they railed against was just a large bone structure with a lot of muscle?

wally  | Wednesday, June 06, 2007 |  07:33 AM

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Well....you can see that alot of thought went into his concept and that is the problem

Stan  | Tuesday, June 05, 2007 |  11:08 AM

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Reducing the size of Government is a lofty ambition, but for it to work the services also need to be cut. While I agree that we need to cut services, it is hard to find many people who want their services cut. Any volunteers?

David S.  | Monday, June 04, 2007 |  04:21 PM

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I guess that would be a reasonable compromise. Then, the federal government would only have enough fat for a beer gut instead of the morbidly obese, "Jaba The Hut" condition it is currently in. I can say from experience that it's a mess and getting worse.

What the public doesn't seem to get is that the federal government's obesity is more than a spectacle for people to critize, this much waste and fat makes our government lethargic, reduces it's capacity to work for us and will ultimately cause it to fail altogether. I don't think any form of CPR can save this.

Robert M.  | Monday, June 04, 2007 |  03:07 PM

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