saw government as a necessary evil.
It doesn't work to pave the whole interstate personally, or choose one particular mile of it. You could have a national election on every issue, but then you'd still have to delegate someone to be in charge of following whatever the electorate decided through.I think why this is a common saying is that there is always waste in government endless discussion over seemingly non-important issues, corruption, simple bad decisions. Despite the protests we all do about bad people in government, it has all the drawbacks of committees, the inefficiencies.