Americans love big government: Clinton economist - Freeland File (2:12) 

The calls to shrink the size of the U.S. government contrast with the overwhelming support in the U.S. for government funding for Medicare, Social Security, defense, roads, and research, says Laura Tyson, former chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisors under Clinton and professor at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. (May 29, 2012)

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