Small government has failed, and those who insist on keeping things the way they were hundreds of years ago, and just holding onto the past and not acknowledging that things have changed since then.
The middle class citizen has had declining wages and higher health care costs with small government, it has only benefited the chosen few who are already wealthy or large corporations. There had been increasing unemployment over the years too.
The system needs to change so the middle class doesn't all become too poor to even own their own homes, while the rich get richer and move all their money to other countries as tax shelters, and move their businesses overseas also. That's my take on things, it something isn't working for America, then it needs to be changed.
Small governments hundreds of years ago? How about just fifty years ago, when most of this socialism and such really got started? Prior to recent years we all had jobs and pay was fair. Now not so many get to work and pay is no longer fair as before. Doctors were much cheaper then and not restricted to only certain insurances as they are these days. Walk in, pay your $20 and you were done. Now they don't want to touch you till we review and sign several places, and we still have to pay more than before. Until Obama care you could always walk into a emergency room and get taken care of if rich or poor. Not sure if you can still go that today. would hope so as that is real medical care, not Obama care.
Your second statement is true today. Some, not all, of the unemployment of the recent 6 years, beginning in the last two years of Bush's administration while Democrats held both houses and started wasting money like crazy, from 7 trillion on up to 10 trillion debt. Prior to that the Clinton and Bush administrations had held the debt down into the 7 trillion level, even with two wars going on. Several efforts were made to try to redo the tax codes under Obama but so far nothing has been allowed to get to Obama due to the far left Senate controlled by a twisted person. The wealthy had no reason to worry about lower or higher medical cost or if the poor could get medical care less expensively than now, all this has become a politically involved and has not proven to be a good financial method at all. Again it is the low income folks that have taken a beating and the middle income folks getting the worst of all.
Yes the system needs to change, we need to get to where the states once again run things for their own situations and get away from the one size fits all socialistic way of living. We need to go back prior to the ways that the 1960's and 1970's has started and continued to push. We need to get our taxes back to where everyone is involved, no more of this 60% of us no longer pay much if anything at all.
To think that much of the US needs to run as they do in Europe is wrong. The US has been a good example of how to best run a government until recent years. Now we seem to be in a rush to change to the European ways and have high taxes, high cost, higher unemployment and higher medical costs due to new medical insurance demands and a no longer accepted or even considered, respect for our Constitution. Now it is time for the current emperor to try to guide us through his last two years with some Congress folks that may want decision run through Congress for authorizations as they should have been for the last 6 years.
Hopefully, the next election will place a new president in that is aware of the purpose of the Constitution and how this government is supposed to be run through the use of the Congress and not through lots of Presidential demands and not debated or considered actions of far too much of the current Presidents ways. Maybe we should also put a limit on the number of years our Congress people can stay and work. Maybe some agreed on number for their total years of 20 or 30 years and an age limit of 75 or so for top age? No large retirements for our Congress people, let it all be on years of service, starting rather low and slowly climbing. similar to those in industry. We do need change but definitely not into socialism, or worse, communism.
And I am not a far right politically either. I am more of a centered type, some liberal stuff and some conservative stuff, but definitly want to see the US run within it Constitution guidelines and not so far off as the current government is running.
