By Way of Intro

BGLfRP sits on a couple of principles:
1. Yes, we kinda want government to take care of us from the cradle to the grave. But the federal government has done a piss-poor job of that despite raking an incredible amount off the top of our income, so we want our money back.
2. Government is, in some respects, just a special case of the firm. We do not (completely) accept the libertarian proposition that government is always a corrosive or negative influence on society. It's entire possible that governments -- like firms -- get bigger in proportion to how successful they are.

That's all for now; in depth discussion of these and other points will follow.

PS: Time to blow my cover: I'm probably not actually a big government liberal; just a Ron Paul supporter doing an experiment on how robust the concept of Constitutional government is. (Hint: very)