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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 2157687" data-attributes="member: 56035">im reading david cay johnstons free lunch wrote in 2007.  he says government now is roughly the same size as it was when reagan took office.he said 1 thing thats been happening is government workers lose their jobs, and instead the government contracts the work out to private corporations which ends up costing more.he also said that theres increasingly less money for things people actually need like healthcare, bridges, education, etc because the money is going to the rich for subsidies.he said the number of lobbyists doubled between 2000 and 2007. im looking at this one website and it looks like it shrunk back down to the 2000 number.</blockquote>