Absolutely agree. Somewhere along the line large portions of our society got conned into believing that government was a powerful entity which they should fear, and in the name of freedom and personal rights they enthusiastically endoresed selling off as many government assets as possible, and handing all that power away from democratically elected governments to big businesses. And all that money that was received from selling assets has been passed on to individuals as lower taxes, which then got gobbled up by the companies providing the services our taxes used to pay for.

Now we are in a situation where government does not really have the power to do most of what it should be doing and the businesses that are doing essential work are using their power for personal gain. And yet we still focus on trying to cut government down - as a society we hate the idea of government employees getting decent wages and benefits, so all the best employees go to work for private businesses, who we then have to pay a fortune to as "consultants".