>>The waste and fraud that has been seen in the reconstruction effort is a pretty good example of big government being inefficient in delivering a lot of services.
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>Nope, it's the private businesses to which the government work was outsourced.
But that's the point - big government decides how to dole out public money and does it badly. ( Iraq reconstruction being another good example )
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