This is true in the sense of if you ask someone "Should the federal government be smaller?" they will say yes. It is not true in the "Should we get rid of Medi

This is true in the sense of if you ask someone "Should the federal government be smaller?" they will say yes. It is not true in the "Should we get rid of Medicare and Social Security and reimplement them on a state by state basis?" or "Should we abolish the FCC, SEC, EPA, FDA, Postal Service?" When you ask people if we should make the federal government smaller they'll say yes, when you ask them about a specific piece of the federal government they say no.