Government has gotten small because of Obama's policies but not because of his intent.

While Obama continues to grow the size of Process Government,  tonight, for example,   talking about adding three more agencies to the burgeoning size of the Centralized Government,  we have this headline:   Post Office 'Needs to Cut 260,000 Jobs'...  The ineptness of government and its inability to revise itself in the face of a rapidly changing world,  makes the fact of its obesity unsustainable as hard times diminish federal revenues and,  hence, the life blood of federal funding.  Understand that all federal jobs are "administrative" or "regulatory." They are all "entitlement" positions,  never judged on the basis of their fiscal profitability.   None of them are wealth producing jobs.  They are not self sustaining position as are private sector jobs.    While federal wages expand GDP statistics,  the tax dollars demanded to run government are taken away from the private sector,  money that could be used to create jobs,  fund infrastructure,  drive research and development  as a private sector investment opportunity,  rather than a government opportunity to pick winners and losers.

The size of the Central Government is smaller, now,  than a year ago by 30,000 government jobs.  Over all,  and at all levels (federal, state and local),  government has lost 500,000 jobs  since 2007. . . . .  a good thing,  in and of itself..  Understand that if each job represents only $30,000 annually including wages and benefits,  the current reduction in the size of governments has saved the private sector taxpayer some 30 billion dollars per year.  Of course,  that money does not go back into the private sector.  Rather, it is used to prop up our blotted governments (federal, state and local) and  rescue themselves from their own mismanaged debt.  This is why the public should always refuse higher taxes.  Such electoral decisions force government to streamline,  despite partisan political agenda's.  

The good thing about "recession" is this:  governments have no choice but to downsize their workforce and reduce or adjust payouts and benefit packages.  

One of the big differences between free market capitalism and a government entitlement systems  (all government employees are part of a thing I call  "entitlement economics").  In a capitalist society,  people work for their advancement.  In an entitlement society,  folks like teachers and firemen,  as important as they are,  demand their advancement and the taxpayer has to shell out more and more to meet these demands.  

Barack Obama is the King of Entitlements,  and his speech,  tonight,  did nothing but confirm that opinion.