Let's not content ourselves anymore with the smug cliché "Government is the problem. . "
We need government to lead us out of the long-term problems which weigh on this country. Despising the means to enact change is simply unacceptable.
Railing against too much government has been the status quo, de facto position of every president in modern times, yet they still continued to spend like drunken sailors growing money on trees and slaughtering golden geese as if another gaggle will be gotten in the (never to come) future.
Ultimately entrenched, concerted inaction is what we need. What if Senators, Congressmen, and Executives across the country did not do anything? What if they ceased their empty deliberations, the chronic sucking up of air time with back-and-forth debates that are just plain posturing to the American public that they want to do something, when in fact their is no incentive for them to do anything, lest they get handed the bill for any failure, and ultimately lose their seats of power.
We need people in government who will not do so much. Or we need more legislators who will frustrate government from doing anything.
As George F. Will commented, "We have more to fear from government haste than government tardiness."