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Is the Federal Government too big?

The shrinking the size of government has been issue number one for some lawmakers, for years.

"It seems the levithan is very unwieldy and difficult to manage. This is my shocked face." Said Representative Virginia Foxx a Republican from North Carolina.

The IRS targeting scandal brought about many questions about why the President didn't act sooner in dealing with the tax agency. Former Obama adviser David Axelrod, gave this answer. "Part of being President is that there's so much that you can't know, because the government is so vast."

Afterall, there are 456 federal agencies and hundreds of sub-agencies within those. How could anyone be expected to know what's going on at all of them?

Hans Von Spakovsky with the Heritage Foundation says that's what the executive office is for. "The whole point of that staff is to keep track of what is going on in the rest of the government and what's going on in the country. And to keep the President briefed on the issues he needs to know about."

Instead it turns out the President has been finding about, not just the IRS incident but many others as well, from the media. "I heard on the news this story. The fast and the furious." Obama said in October of 2011.

"We don't have any independent knowledge of that. He found out about the news reports yesterday on the road." Said White House Spokesman Jay Carney.

When the press knows what's happening before those supposed to be in charge of what's happening, Von Spakovsky says it's worrisome, but hopes it may be an impetus for change. "Perhaps this will make him realize in fact we should be shrinking the size of federal government and not making it larger."
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