Just yesterday, a Republican congressional candidate, from upstate New York--I forget his name--mentioned that he could not remember when someone last said, "I really like the federal government; my one complaint about it is that it is just not big enough."

It is something to think about...

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"In his second inaugural address, [Franklin D.] Roosevelt sought 'unimagined power' to enforce the 'proper subordination' of private power to public power. He got it…"—George Will, July 8, 2007

That is propaganda for those who don't really know what the federal government does.

here's a partial list:
Administration for Native Americans
Administrative Conference of the United States
Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts
Advisory Council on Historic Preservation
Africa Command
African Development Foundation
Agency for Global Media
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Agency for International Development (USAID)
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS)
Agricultural Research Service
Agriculture Department (USDA)
Agriculture Library
Air Force
Air Force Reserve
Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau
Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Bureau (ATF)
Alhurra TV
American Battle Monuments Commission
AmeriCorps
AmeriCorps Seniors
Amtrak (AMTRAK)
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS)
Antitrust Division
Appalachian Regional Commission
Architect of the Capitol
Archives, National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
Arctic Research Commission
Armed Forces Retirement Home
Arms Control and International Security
Army
Army Corps of Engineers
Arthritis, Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institute of
Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity (FHEO)
Fannie Mae
Farm Credit Administration
Farm Credit System Insurance Corporation
Farm Service Agency
Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP)
Federal Citizen Information Center
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Federal Consulting Group
Federal Court Interpreters
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Federal Election Commission
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Federal Executive Boards
Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council
Federal Financing Bank
Federal Geographic Data Committee
Federal Highway Administration (FHA)
Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac)
Federal Housing Administration (FHA)
Federal Housing Finance Agency
Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy
Federal Judicial Center
Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA)
Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer
Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC)
Federal Library and Information Center Committee
Federal Maritime Commission
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA)
Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae)
Federal Protective Service
Federal Railroad Administration (FRA)
Federal Register
Federal Reserve System
Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board
Federal Student Aid Information Center
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Federal Transit Administration (FTA)
Federal Voting Assistance Program
FedStats
Fire Administration (USFA)
Fiscal Service, Bureau of the
Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS)
Fleet Forces Command
Food and Agriculture, National Institute of (NIFA)
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Food and Nutrition Service
Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty (RFE/RL)
Radio Sawa
Railroad Retirement Board (RRB)
Reclamation, Bureau of
Refugee Resettlement, Office of
Rehabilitation Services Administration
Risk Management Agency
Rural Business and Cooperative Programs
Rural Development
Rural Housing Service
Rural Utilities Service
Tax Court
Taxpayer Advocacy Panel
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
Trade and Development Agency
Trade Representative
Transportation Department (DOT)
Transportation Security Administration (TSA)
Transportation Statistics, Bureau of
Treasury Department
FEMA which is now part of Homeland Security

listed by general headings, most things fall under one of these:

Department of Agriculture
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Department of Commerce logo
Department of Commerce
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Department of Defense logo
Department of Defense
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Department of Education logo
Department of Education
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Department of Energy logo
Department of Energy
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Environmental Protection Agency logo
Environmental Protection Agency
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Department of Health and Human Services logo
Department of Health and Human Services
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Department of Homeland Security logo
Department of Homeland Security
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Department of Housing and Urban Development logo
Department of Housing and Urban Development
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Department of the Interior logo
Department of the Interior
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Department of Justice logo
Department of Justice
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Department of Labor logo
Department of Labor
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Department of State logo
Department of State
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Department of Transportation logo
Department of Transportation
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Department of the Treasury logo
Department of the Treasury
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Department of Veterans Affairs logo
Department of Veterans Affairs
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General Services Administration logo
General Services Administration
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration logo
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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National Science Foundation logo
National Science Foundation
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Office of Personnel Management logo
Office of Personnel Management
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Small Business Administration logo
Small Business Administration
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Social Security Administration logo
Social Security Administration
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Small Business Administration logo
U.S. Agency For International Development
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You don't understand what you are talking about, since claiming the federal government is too large is fact, not propaganda. Except for anything pertaining to the military on your lengthy list, those agencies fall outside the very narrow jurisdiction the Constitution granted the federal government. It has expanded way beyond the original intent given in the Constitution, costs the people way too much money, creates layers of expensive bureaucracies between the local and the federal governments, inhibits the freedoms our country was founded on, and has become totalitarian.

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If you're not allowed to question it, it's not science. It's propoganda.

"Wokeness gives people a shield to be mean and cruel, armored in false virtue." - Elon Musk

"What you want to do is appropriate women, you want to appropriate womanhood and turn it into basically a costume that could be worn!" - Matt Walsh to trans activist

Bigger government in America is a mixed bag of some good and mostly bad new policies made to "improve" small groups that get attention....

Over done restrictions and under done common sense....

The vast majority (roughly 90%) of federal government spending is for Social Security, unemployment compensation, healthcare (primarily Medicare, Medicaid and CHIP), defense, veterans benefits, federal employee retirement, debt service, and transportation (highways, air traffic, etc.). It's pointless to complain about the size of government without being specific about what you would eliminate.

Everything that you mentioned minus the Veteran Benefits to start with.

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To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead - Thomas Paine

A lie doesn't become truth, a wrong doesn't become right, and Evil doesn't become good, just because it is accepted by the majority. - Booker T Washington

You want to eliminate Social Security and the entire defense department and armed services?

I just randomly highlights a few of the space wasters you included.

The Federal Reserve, increased font, is supposedly NOT part of the Federal Government. I wonder if I wasted my time picking through your list, how much other garbage is in it. Or, from another view point, your list is simple proof of how bloated the Federal government has become, with redundancy, stupidity and self importance.......

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Your life is the sum total of the choices you make.
If you don't laugh at yourself, a whole bunch of people will volunteer to do it for you
I never lose. I either win, or I learn....

you and at least the guys who thanked your reply, believe every bit of sht the conspiracy theorists shovel ya.
name a danged successful society that had no taxes or tried to get taxes from poor people, had no publicly supported necessities. even in oligarchies there has to be order of some kind, much less in free countries, there should not be chaos. Chaos in America is what is wanted by our enemies. Our enemies, our enemies.

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Are you capable of discussing the subject at hand? Apparently not, since your straw man argument about taxes has nothing to do with what I said about the how much the federal government has grown beyond what the Constitution allowed.

Chaos is exactly what Biden's open-border policy is accomplishing. The people pulling his strings are the enemy. Are you that incapable of seeing the obvious?

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If you're not allowed to question it, it's not science. It's propoganda.

"Wokeness gives people a shield to be mean and cruel, armored in false virtue." - Elon Musk

"What you want to do is appropriate women, you want to appropriate womanhood and turn it into basically a costume that could be worn!" - Matt Walsh to trans activist