[voisin]

Massive right wing strategy is to use the laws to make it nearly impossible for a government agency to function effectively, and then point to the ineffectiveness as a reason to defund it.

The fact is, government works pretty well in a lot of ways in a lot of countries.

[nickpp]

That excuse does not explain the fact that the government services are crappy no matter what wing is on power and that the costs and size of said government are ballooning every year. Come on, for half the money I make I get a handful of substandard services while the other half gets me everything else in my life?!

There are ~200 countries on the globe. In how many do you think the government works well? 10%? 20%? Certainly in a minority of them.