Check out this Lentian “Rant,” calling for a leaner-meaner government:

In periods of downsizing and restructuring, companies often become leaner and more efficient. If not, they tend to go out of business. One could look at it as a sort of “fasting” period. Government, however, continues to grow in good economies and bad.

Perhaps if government learned to make sacrifices the way businesses and individuals do, to “fast” if you will, it too would become leaner and more efficient.