This is fair. I personally agree that US government is small, or should be small for that matter. A lot of EU countries have much more efficient governments. M

This is fair. I personally agree that US government is small, or should be small for that matter. A lot of EU countries have much more efficient governments. My original comment was about the neo-conservative ideology, which was either directly in power or heavily influencal in governmental policy in US since Reagan. It's, like anything ideological, mostly symbolic. I think the whole healtchare debate is just one of the symbolic points of this ideology. Ideologies change, and I certainly hope this for US and rest of the world that it changes.