Big Government Implodes

Daniel Henninger gets it just right when he details just how f'ed we are.

To call the U.S. federal government a black hole is a disservice to black holes, which have a neutral majesty. Excepting the military's fighting units, the federal government has become a giant slug, like Jabba the Hutt, inert but dangerous. Like Jabba, the government increasingly survives by issuing authoritarian decrees from this or that agency.

Obamacare is only one aspect where we're too big...well for outer space. Whether it is the NSA and Snowden, the IRS singling out tea party groups, the weather services, the State Department, etc. we're teetering past the edge over largesse. And he doesn't even get into the massive new regulatory, unaccountable bureaucracies created by Dodd Frank to play Big Brother over the finance industry. Or the diminished federalism exerted by the Court in the DOMA decision. Like Henninger said, multiple parts of the federal government are breaking down simultaneously. And there's no way to stop it.