government efficient for the people did our founding fathers actually design the government to be inefficient? ask yourself that question. because this is a model for inefficiency. but it was done deliberately. why? this because in order to have basic liberties you have to have the government with very little power. the more efficient the government is, the more liberties the individual has to give up to give to them. they cannot do their job efficiently unless they have the power to tell you what to do. very interesting, isn t it? and yet our society today generally believes that we have to have an efficient government because we ve been told time after time after time we must make the government efficient. but that is the road to loss of freedom. to watch this program in its entirety, go to booktv of.org. simply type the title or the author s name at the top left of the screen and click search. up next, jeff sharlet, contributing editor for harper s and rolling stone