Every time the government gets involved in something, it destroys it. It perverts the economic efficiencies and causes a mess that "Oh darnit! We need a bigger

Every time the government gets involved in something, it destroys it. It perverts the economic efficiencies and causes a mess that "Oh darnit! We need a bigger government program to solve it!" Then, when it racks up failure after failure after failure trying to solve a problem; it never takes the blame for its intrusion by shutting the programs down and allowing for other solutions. It asks for more money, more authority, more regulations/laws. There is no testing in government for usefulness. There is no refactoring. It is the worst kind of spaghetti code that grows endlessly. - I mean, we just had a Depression because of government's involvement in housing pricing and lending. - Public Education. Ever increasing money spent, never increasing results. - Student Loans and Higher Education pricing is the next disaster that they have brewed by getting involved. - Healthcare, as bad as it was with the mess of state regulations it had on it is becoming astoundingly worse with Obamacare. - Social Security, Medicare, etc. are all financial disasters that have created huge obligations that we will be unable to pay. - Airport security has done nothing to make us safer since the TSA, but there it is. A huge behemoth that makes travel painful. I'd add the Military in there as well since it's a huge money suck that is extraordinarily wasteful - but it's one of those few necessary evils that we don't have a choice on to some extent. Plus, since it's results oriented (kill or be killed) - it's actually gotten to be pretty good at what it does. [edit: hit post too soon]