The only disadvantage of the Free Market self-regulation is that it is the slow process that requires a patience. Of course, the patience is a vurtue, but a very rare one. The impatient ones shout: "Government-do something!". And the government will respond immediately (because the government is happy to find or more frequently to create ANY excuse to grab more power) – by wasting your money, by grabbing your decision making powers, by controlling you more and more.
Government is the bottle neck of the totalitarianism:
All kinds of the totalitarians use the coercive powers of government to impose their will on the population, to hurt the society and eventually to destroy the country. Big and strong government is the universal tool of the enemies of the people, of enemies of freedom, just like the Free Market and individual liberties are the universal tools of solving all the world's problems. Without strong government the ruling elite, the enemies of the people cannot impose their will on you. Thus, even though it is worthwhile fighting each and all totalitarian ideologies on their own "merit", exposing them for what they are, but it is by far more important and practical to minimize the powers of a government as their universal instrustrument of coercion. Those naive freedom-lovers who hope they can use the same instrument of government to protect the freedom are wrong: the government is a monster that has a mind on its own. No matter what your good intentions are– any well meaning laws is distorted by the government and eventually start serving exactly opposite from the original purpose. Besides, according to the law of unintended consequences, any law is an intervention into the self-regulating mechanisms of the society, of economics, thus, the government's "cure" is always worse than the ill it is supposed to "cure". Hence, the minimization of the size, scope, budget and powers of the government is THE ONLY WAY to preserve interrelated individual liberties, freedom (most importantly Free Market), prosperity of the country and individual succes in the pursuit of happiness. Strong government is like a dangerous weapon of mass destruction laying on the road unattended and any passing by scumbag is free to pick it up and to use against us, the people. Keep your enemy by definition, your government small and weak and on a short leash. The dragon of the government must fear us, the people – then and only then there is liberty.
Totalitarian slipery-slope:
Totalitarians always use a nice sounding and on the first glance rationally looking baits to entice the people to initial step on the totalitarian slippery slope path. The key is: does it use the government as an instrument of "fixing" true or made up problem? Does it increase government's size, powers, budget and the scope? If the answer is "YES" to ANY of those questions– then KILL THE BILL! It will never "solve" the problem, but instead it inevitably will create innumerous other unintended problems, and most important– it's a beginning of the self-destructive path to the national suicide, a totalitarian slippery slope to the dead end of the civilization. We saw it in the Euro-Zoo, and we don't want to kill America too. Paradoxically may it sound but it is always true. You want to improve economy through the government actions? It will kill the country. You want to save nature and poor darling animals via the govenment laws? It will kill the country. You want to improve the education, especially for the poor kids, using the government's run public education? It will kill the country. The list is endless. How come? Because any government action in fact (not in empty words) serves only one purpose: the further power grab. When the government action inevitably results in more problems than it "solved"– obviously, government can claim that it takes more government and more taxes "to solve" the problems that previous government actions created, and the more power government has-easier to commit another power grab. Power and money, money and power-that's all any government is about. And the chain reaction continues– the government grabs more people's power and money, as a snow ball. Meanwhile inherently totalitarian leftist media will cover up for the Big Government failures, distorting and misinterpreting truth, hiding information and the like. MSM also need Big Government to impose their delusional agendas of "social engineering, social justice" and similar mad schientist crap. The society can and should mainly be self-governed using moral code, ethics, traditions, wisdom of ages and citizens associations and societies. Government should serve only as 911 service when there is an emergent lapse, when the threat exceeds what this person (or group) can handle. Majority of crimes are already prevented when criminals know that any home can be armed. In disarmed by the government states and cities (Washington, DC, NYC, Chicago) disarmed citizens cannot prevent crimes and the criminals know it. So, in those cities factual cooperation between the criminals and the government boosts the crime rate sky high. But the government doesn't care– as an enemy of the people the government's main goal is to disarm the people.