[G.Mason]

"Don't forget the innate inefficiency of a large government bureaucracy. The larger the government, the more inefficient."

Excellent point.

I suppose with 300,000,000 citizens, and how many more illegals [?], we aren't going to be getting a smaller, more effective government, anytime soon.

One drawback to folks living "forever" is that our representatives stay in office until they really get the handle on thieving from the other states to support themselves and their "give me more" constituants, and become so entrenched that they rarely get deposed.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

If they live forever so will we and we know their kind of government is not sustainable. So, we outlast them, have 50 - 100 years of good times and start the cycle all over again.