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To: TigerPaw who wrote (287491)	5/10/2006 2:45:03 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1586983

Without regulatory oversite they would run the country. No they wouldn't, unless by "without regulatory oversite" you mean without laws against them killing, beating, and detaining people, and without laws against them forming armies, and attacking the US government and individuals who don't fall in line with their rule. In any case I'm not and have not been calling for a situation with no regulatory oversight, even by a normal definition of that term, much less the extreme and exaggerated definition that would be needed for them to run the country. As to whether the govt. could be smaller, it depends on where the cuts are. If they are in auditors and enforcement then the country will fail it's mission to promote the general Welfare I'm sure cuts could reasonable be made in some areas that fall under "auditors and enforcement". In any case auditing and law enforcement is a relatively small part of the federal budget. Tim