Well, time for the annual budget fights, where Republicans try to cut minuscule amounts from an out of control federal leviathan and Democrats accuse them of being draconian. Kevin Williamson has a good post over at National Review about this but that's not the point I want to make here.
Oh, that reminds me. Buy Williamson's book The End is Near and It's Going to be Awesome
Anyway...
the point was about government spending. If you want a small c conservative/libertarian perspective, Cato Institute has put together a website called Downsizing the Federal Government. In it you will see specific and targeted cuts that they have proposed, for programs that they feel are wasteful or NOTGB (none of the government's business).
A little aside about small c conservatism: We are for limited not small government. I have no problem with a stinking huge military if it serves the purpose of providing for the national defense as provided in the Constitution. I have no problem with any of the items specifically delegated to the federal government in the Constitution being paid for and faithfully executed. Everything else is, to quote the Constitution, reserved to the states or the people. That means that mandating health insurance (not in the Constitution), Department of Education (not in the Constitution), Health and Human Services (nitC), HUD, Fannie May and Freddie Mac, etc, all nitC. Get rid of them and get rid of the burden on the American people. We shouldn't have to spend half our lives dealing with regulations and bureaucracy, not to mention having our wealth seized for the benefit of bureaucrats and special interest groups.
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