When will the Governments stop growing?

 I often start a blog intending to keep it to as few words as possible, but usually end up writing more than my fair share. Interestingly I think the same applies to how the role of national governments have evolved over the years.

  In the beginning they had the simple task of protecting a nations citizen's and maintain order. But now the governments all over the world are involved in almost every sphere of human activity from procreation to death. All this has invariably come at the price of the individual, family and society conceding more powers to the government.  

  The big question is whether the live of an average human person has improved by the Government becoming a provider, and whether our lives would have been better if the government had kept to its original role of being a protector. One obvious advantage of a limited government would be freedom from the thousands of laws that have come into effect, and the new one's being created every day.

 I stop here not wanting to exceed my self imposed limit of words, still wondering when governments will do the same.