size of goverement

According to Chris Edwards, Director of Fiscal Policy at The Cato Institute and author of "Downsizing The Federal Government", "The federal government is headed toward a financial crises", and "most Federal programs are unconstitutional, unnecessary, actively damaging,or properly the responsibility of state government or the private sector".  He also says "the budget is littered with wasteful and unnecessary programs".  What he is saying is the without reduction of government programs Americans become  lazy and expect every thing to be handed to them.  Not to mention the fact that many Americans pay  for these programs through taxes and fees which means we have less income to freely spend which can damage the economy.  In addition, because the programs are expensive to run and inefficient, they will cost more which would mean Americans would have to pay even more taxes or fees to cover the programs. The programs are not sustainable at the levels they are at.  His thought is to terminate business subsidies and commercial activity should be privatized. He concludes that "Given the governments record of mismanaged and damaging programs reviewed in this report, policy makers should be far more skeptical about the governments ability to solve problems with higher spending", meaning the government way of fixing things is with big programs that cost alot of money.
Texas Congressman Ron Paul says that President Obama wants to expand the size of government and states in an article written for PrisonPlanet.com by Steve Watson that the proof is in Obama's inauguration speech where he stated "the question is not weather our government is to big or to small but whether it works". Ron Paul goes on to explain that Obama "will make the government grow faster" and believes the only way to pay for this is "by printing more money" perhaps because Americans are taxes to death already!