it was about the time for tide to turn ... but the real problem with big US gov is that it is really inefficient one, it's like UK, so in that sense smaller it is - the better for everyone... they need to study the French and even better Swedes to learn the art of how to best manage "The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy"
Oh. I thought from the thread title that the US and China were going to split into pathetic little countries that massacre each other by the millions a couple times a century.