Define the national security and social servicestates. Choose one, and explain why it acts as a barrier to reversing the size of the national budget. Which would be easier to reform?

What will be an ideal response?


An ideal response will:
1, Describe the national security state and the social servicestate.
2, Describe why one of the states is a barrier to decreasing the size of the national budget and tends to create big government.
3, Make an argument as to whether one or the other would be easier to reform.

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