Let me explain it like this: the more powerful the government gets, that is, the more it is allowed to control in our lives, the harder people will fight to gain control of the government. Do you see how this makes sense? It's why people raise $10s of millions or more campaigning for a job that pays less than $200,000 in Congress. And then they're beholden to the ones who bought them the jobs. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture