Big government should be an oxymoron

Some classic oxymorons:

Progressive Conservative
political trust
political promise
temporary tax increase
United Nations
Congressional cooperation
Congressional Ethics
Congressional oversight
Congressional responsibility
Congressional wisdom
Progress/Congress
park in a driveway, but drive on a parkway

Big/Government (hmm..., doesn't seem to fit. Maybe once it did)

We need to wake up as Americans and change. Government should be as small as possible, not getting involved in affairs that private people/organizations can do.

As far as the federal government, they should simply do what the Constitution says that should do and nothing else. The States and local government should do the rest (Again, doing as little as possible).

Yes, call me a 10th'er if you must, but read the Constitution and then call me that. I would agree to be a 10th'er means your an American, or at least an American that loves ones country and thin g the Founding Fathers got it right.

Government should only provide the framework, not the implementation.
In computer programming, software engineers will tell you that the best frameworks don't get in the way of implementation, allowing you to change the framework if needed without scraping the whole project.

Newer engineers will often depend on the framework in such a way that they are forever tied to it and the project sinks with the framework. The framework can't change because of all of the dependencies to the project and the project can't evolve of the same reason. These new engineers can get stuff now quickly and make it look good, but in the long run, they are choices that can't be undone in the future without huge and expensive efforts. Just look at MS Windows for the a classic case study.

Government should only create rules enforce those rules and never profit from them. The government should strive to be more efficient every year, spending less money per citizen then the year prior. As we grow, we should need less percentage overhead. We should be able to report on these all ALL levels of government.

Pretty simple idea, really. If the population grows by 30% over 20 years, the government should not grow by 30%. It should strive to grow smaller year or year.

Some government is needed, but I think about 80% of our government is not needed and we would do much better if these 'services' was provided by private businesses and/or charities.