Conservatives understand that outside of running the military and other related protective services, the government, either federal or state, simply cannot achieve what private, capitalist free market based industry achieves.
I too prefer smaller government. Including the military.
Government simply cannot achieve what private, capitalist free market based industry achieves.
Yes government could definitely not achieve the back-to-back speculative bubbles that Wall St. perpetrated. Bubbles that have brought our economy to its knees.
And free market capitalists were the first to self regulate their toxic poluting of the environment. I have pictures of Pittsburgh in the 1960s to prove it.
And so on.
So as much as I wish what you "understand" were true, the fact is that its not true, and has been proven not true repeatedly.
Chris