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Re:Washington Versus Silicon Valley by anamax on Friday August 07, 2009 @02:42PM (#748273)
> Austria for example, and Germany. They have social services that are built in and aren't nearly as bloated as the US government.

It depends on your definition of bloat. They do consume comparable amounts of GDP and they don't do some things that the US govt does.

However, there's an even bigger difference - both are tiny by comparision to the US govt. Germany would be a big state and Austria a middle-size one.

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