  The size of the state  A big beast to tackle   See article
Readers' comments    what is the role of government? Today
Banksters manage the Government. They speculate, gamble with
Government money and savings of people. They get bailed out with
worthless paper which anyway eats savings of people and causes
inflation. They manage windfall profits of OPEC and commodity
Giants and gamble it on derivatives. What is the role of
Government?  jang maek in reply to vinayaksathe  "Today
Banksters manage the Government. They speculate, gamble with
Government money and savings of people." Sounds true. But should
we recognize and give credit first to those who made it possible
for the government to be infiltrated (by those who perverted
it)? The thing we call deregulation, a brainchild of free
market.  But this "They speculate, gamble with Government money
and savings of people." -- that sounds to me more like JP Morgan
rather than the government.  jang maek in reply to timshel  Yes.
And I don't think we need more data