Using terms like 'big' and 'small' when referring to governments doesn't necessarily have to mean just financially or regulatory. In more serious terms, it can

Using terms like 'big' and 'small' when referring to governments doesn't necessarily have to mean just financially or regulatory. In more serious terms, it can be used to mean tyrannical, such as becoming 'bigger' than our human rights. How's this for a thought: How 'big' do we want our government to become? Personally I would have liked to stop before Bush signed the Patriot Act, or before we bum-rushed the middle-east with no intention of leaving, or before the NSA created their god machine, or before Obama resigned the Patriot Act several times. Don't get me wrong, I'm not in favor of immediately stripping regulations and defending redundant agencies, but I am interested in immediately cutting off the hand that's reaching up Lady-Liberty's skirt.