After three weeks of partial shutdown, do we need all this government?

My late father, Albert George ‘Ladd’ Alexander, Jr. a Louisiana Republican political leader and political friend of President Reagan, would frequently say, only half-jokingly, ‘Each night I get on my knees and thank God Almighty that I don’t get all the government that I pay for.”He would definitely understand the political moment in which we currently find ourselves, as the pa...