you are a free-market conservative from your youth and you went in and you worked in government making government bigger and oftentimes making government bigger and sometimes making it smaller. i never worked in the government. no, no. as a lobbyist. i worked on the government. i don t think there s a lot of times there wasn t a ton of ideological commit whamt you were doing. you sort wrf on one side. but in terms of fidelity in the free enterprise system have you an argument in the book big government is the problem produces this system of corruption. you say that senator drops a frame on his foot and wants to regulate picture frames and then that becomes a political battle and then legislators have to regulate it. and it strikes me as self-serving that to basically have a system in which you think government is not good and corruptible and that go into lobbying and corrupt it. then come out on the other side and look, government is totally corruptible and corrupt. we should