 He drew the comparison between America today and the Soviet Union then by looking at the size of government that our deficits are on track to be 5% of GDP. That's certainly bad, but that doesn't get to the heart of the problem. People forget that what killed the Soviet Union wasn't big government. Obviously they did have a big government, but the bigger problem was that they were a command economy. All of the incentives in their economic system were oriented towards greater production.