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Big Bad Government – It’ll Huff & Puff & Blow Our House Down

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Follow the Prager University link to the right to the short video clip on "The Bigger the Government..." Bigger government is bad in many ways, and the Obama administration’s trend is clearly in that direction. 16,000 new IRS agents alone just to help enforce Obamacare. Other new beaurocrats to administer that and new regulatory commissions. For the first time in history, there are now more government union (SEIU) workers than private sector/manufacturing union members in the U.S. And the Obama administration seems bent on manufacturing (e.g., thru Congressional show trials/hearings) or worsening one crisis after another – a crisis du jour -- to provide the excuse for further government growth/intervention to address the problem. As that prince of darkness, Rahm Emanuel said, “You should never let a crisis go to waste” – it’s an opportunity to do what you ordinarily couldn’t. And we have yet to reverse any government bureaucracy – they only grow. Let's examine how b