A reader:

Doesn’t that poll prove that the federal government is

too big? More than mere ignorance (the power of which

I don’t discount) must be at work here. Surely we

don’t need 19 departments. I had no idea that some of

these positions (EPA, Drug Policy, trade rep) were

Cabinet positions now. (I could only reach 13

myself, although I ought to have thought of Energy and

Transportation.)