• Smaller government is not the answer 
A. R. Liboff, Sun-Sentinel (FL) Individualism  | When I lived in Michigan, there was a morning radio show that began each day with a child’s voice saying “I love my country, but I fear my government.” This reflected the libertarianism/objectivism popularized by President Reagan in the 80s with his “Starve the beast” approach to running the country. Long before Reagan, when I was still in college, this sort of thinking was labeled nihilist or anarchist. Today, these people may wrap themselves in the American flag and call themselves tea partiers or libertarians, but they are all merely the intellectual descendants of misbegotten anti-government bomb-throwers of the 1920s and 30s.   Published: 2011-06-27