Our government does a great many things that can reasonably be accomplished in no other way.  But does it try to do too much? and in  doing so, does it crowd out the innovation of the private sector?  In trying to do more, does it insure that we get and keep less?  Most economists would argue that the answer is yes.

There is little question but that the government and our leaders generally try to do the right thing... But remember, there is nothing that government ever does or gives that did not take from someone else.  (in one form or another).  By the definition, the more the government does with one hand, the more it must take with the other...