The only way to stop the malignant growth of goverment is to have a fully voluntary goverment.
In other words: provide an “a la carte” range of “services” the government intends to provide, and let people to choose any (or none) of them that they deem necessary.
At the same time, lose the idea of govermnet monopoly on protection, law etc.
The market can provide any and all services that the government does at this time more efficiently and cheaply.
People generally recognize the long-run advantages of peaceful cooperation, and the prohibitive costs and dangers of violent action. Thus, even without government, the amount of criminals would be minuscule compared to the current state (e.g. “…the Not So Wild, Wild West”).
I am firmly convinced that men have the capacity to plan their lives to minimize risk and danger, and maximize the benefits of living among other men.

“..the interventionist process inevitably leads to a crisis, where the effects of multiple interventions have become so pernicious that the possibility of a dramatic turn toward free markets becomes possible. The oil crisis of the late 1970s offers an example of such a turning point, when a deregulation of the oil industry that would have been unthinkable a few years before took place fairly rapidly.

When the crisis hits, a turn toward the free market is not inevitable. The other possibility is to turn toward socialism, in order to eliminate the remaining ‘market failures,’ and allow state regulation full sway. Which direction the system takes in a crisis will depend, to a great extent , on the ideological leanings of the public.” [page 183]

Greece may be so far gone down the interventionist path that they choose to make their government even more powerful and intrusive than it already is. On the other hand, there may still be enough people in the United States who believe in individual liberty to tip us in the opposite direction. If so, then Obama may be doing us a favor by trying to push the country too far, too fast. In the meantime, it’s important that we bring as many people into the freedom camp as possible.