Richard Reeves: No One is Against Big Government

Was the great conservative, Ronald Reagan, the President who said he would get government off our backs? Yes, he did, as he ran up more deficit spending than all the thirty-nine men who proceeded him in that most powerful of offices. He borrowed that money to finance bigger government, particularly a bigger military. Yes, he did hate government bureaucrats, or at least the idea of them, but he never seemed to understand that a bureaucrat by any other name was still a bureaucrat, even in uniform.
(richardreeves.com)