Mitt Romney; Government has exploded under Obama. (Congress, security, Republicans)

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However, the reality is that before President Obama exploded the size of the federal government, our existing tax rates were more or less adequate to pay for the government we needed.

Issues | Mitt Romney for President

Asking congress for more power to shrink the government, the President suggested smashing six economic agencies into one, an idea intended to halt bureaucratic nightmares and force Republicans to back him on one of their own favorite issues.
Obama unveils plans to shrink government as Mitt Romney 'to become GOP nominee' | Mail Online


“That stimulus he [President Obama] put in place — it didn’t help private sector jobs, it helped preserve government jobs. And the one place we should have shut back — or cut back — was on government jobs. We have 145,000 more government workers under this president. Let’s send them home and put you back to work.”

..... much of that increase has come in areas that Romney says he wants to bolster as president, such as defense (80,000 additional jobs), veterans affairs (38,000) and homeland security (20,000).
Mitt Romney’s inaccurate claims about government workers - The Washington Post