In this case, size is defined by spending and the year over year budget.
At any time in history... If so, who ?
I'l research what message to the people they used to accomplish it.
Has Any President Or Governor Ever Reduced The Size Of Government ?
In this case, size is defined by spending and the year over year budget.
At any time in history... If so, who ?
I'l research what message to the people they used to accomplish it.
Err.... Calvin Coolidge? I'm not 100% sure but maybe.
I'm pretty sure no.Originally Posted by raystone
Politicians, by nature, increase the size of government.
That is why minarchism or small government is a pipe dream.
It just goes to show you how bad things are that we are having to struggle to even answer the question.
Maybe Gary Johnson?
I don't think he decreased the size of the New Mexico government, but he drastically stopped TONS of legislation and prevented government from growing.
mentioning that the demobilization of the union army at the conclusion
of the civil war from a million plus men to say 20,ooo to 30,ooo mayhap
indicates a reduction in our budget during reconstruction, however most
historians tend to shy away from profusely praising andrew johnson for a
given number of reasons. we also did have similar demobilizations after
both ww1 & ww2. when we go into a peacetime economy from a wartime
economy, there tends to be budget cutting. most wars do saddle us with
a longterm debt that the next string of potuses try to realistically deal with.
Last edited by Aratus; 03-29-2009 at 10:16 AM.
1920-1923 spending down 50%
1945-1948 spending down 66%
(federal)
but now most spending is mandatory entitlements, so you just don't have the leeway to shrink it.
President Fillmore.
"The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also." ~ Mark Twain.I saw that the State was half-witted, that it was timid as a lone woman with her silver spoons, and that it did not know its friends from its foes, and I lost all remaining respect for it, and pitied it."
--Henry David Thoreau
That an ironic name for someone who reduced the size of government.
"Official" US Federal gov budget history since 1789: http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2009/pdf/hist.pdf for those that just MAY actually give a shit, PDF pages 25-26.
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