Serfdom and Trickle down Economics -difference?

[GaiaHunter]

Core CPI is based on false values, rent equivalents, which recently have no correlation whatsoever to housing prices, particularly not in the Ownership Society.

Which was my point - real inflation is a bit higher then the statistically manipulated data show (and every government does this regardless of colour).

And if you want smaller govt, you'll need to figure out a way to change back the distribution of income to the way it was before big govt. Big govt won't go away until it tries to take as much in taxes as it currently borrows from the rich. As it is, it's entirely too sweet a deal for them to do away with it.

The problem is that at that time US had production/manufacturing jobs while today we have services jobs, which doesn't pay as good.

And the government will have to live with realist means otherwise reality will correct it and in a painful way.