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Katrina Vanden Heuvel and Joel Rogers see the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks as a validation of their leftist agenda for a bigger, more powerful and more expensive government (“What’s Left? A New Life for Progressivism,” Opinion, Nov. 25). I would suggest that on Sept. 11 the federal government, with its $2-trillion budget, millions of employees and countless thousands of laws and regulations, failed to perform its primary responsibility of protecting our borders from an enemy attack.
Our government doesn’t need more things to do. It needs fewer things to do, so it can better concentrate on the things that only the government can do. The size of my household toilet tank is regulated by federal law. Let me take care of my own toilet and let the government take care of Osama bin Laden.
Frederick Singer
Huntington Beach
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