Maintaining this country as a first world power is stupid. wow...Your party has died.
I believe in the private sector very much but it simply doesn't work in many area's. People want to send their children to public schools, people want warning for weather, and first rate science...All these areas are within the public interest.
WE wouldn't be a first world power and there isn't a first world power that does it any other way.
People want a Raisin Control Board telling them how mnay raisins they can grow and sell.
People want an Ag Dept that reclassifies family farms as grain operations so they can regulate them.
People want standards on milk spills.
Oh wait, people dont want any of that shit. Only leftists and gov't employees want that crap.
We were a first world power long before the New Deal.