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Those are good quotes, and actually my liberal Democratic political science professor has the first two pinned up to the wall. The innefficiencies of government programs and the fact that once they develop a constituency they tend to go on forever is something that liberals need to deal with, intelectually, if they want to propose realistic solutions to the county's problems. I say that as a liberal.
Of course, conservatives overstate the efficiency of big business. People forget that wile competition can spur efficiency, it can also harm it. The reason businesses merge afterall is to cut down on competition so as to more efficiently generate a profit. Frther, the ideal of competition is just that, an ideal, and it rests of several impossible assumptions, the biggest being perfect information. Theres a lot less real competition going on in the business world then conservatives would have you belive.
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