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Okay, let's talk about something good because there are some very, very good things happening here at the State Department, the Pentagon, believe it or not, in other places inside of the government. Let's first just recap where we are and why these things are necessary.

The federal government is enormous, enormous, way, way too big. If you could hold up in front

of the founders of this country, the size of the modern

day federal government, they would honestly, they'd probably just hand the country back to the

British. They would look at you like you were insane and say, well, what is this? Government's supposed

to be limited here in small. It's enormous. And these various agencies, like the State Department,

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