Too bad your enthusiasm for smallness doesn't extend to corporations as well as government.
Your straw man embraces the slander that those suspicious of big business must therefore automatically be ardent champions for big government. No amount of denial or explanation seems to penetrate you convenient preconceptions, but I'll try one last time: I fear and loathe all careerist bureaucrats, whether they work for government, business, labor, NGOs or political office. The words "bureaucrat" and "executive" should be synonymous, (as they indeed are in Spanish).

If this is actually true, please give me one example where you have said "hey, the government has too much power here!" Lord knows I've looked for it, and even specifically asked for it. On the other hand, you cheer for things like nationalized health care. So where's the beef?

And I see the growth of government you so much despise as being deliberately and happily engineered by the private sector for its own personal aggrandizement.

Yes! Huge government power over economic issues is exactly what enables it!

Try and find an example of any corporation that was able to gain huge control of an industry WITHOUT the cooperation of a government that has been empowered to enforce that control, and enthusiastic trading of influence and cash to accomplish it.

Reducing the power of the State to do this will reduce the power of corporations to use the State to increase their own power.

If you think the history of the Gilded Age (railroads in particular) was about huge companies stomping around America while the government sat by helplessly, wringing its hands, then you need to do a lot more reading.

Increasing government power will make the things you worry about worse. Much worse. I have no idea how to get this one critical concept across. I've tried over and over again.

Look at the defense industry, which is almost completely an artifact of government spending. You don't have small, timid corporations under the control of a watchful government. You have a situation where industry and government have become intertwined, and almost indistinguishable. And you might have noticed that corruption and greed did not fade away, either. Does this result in low-cost, efficient defense programs? What do you think?

I work in aerospace, and with NASA. There are bones thrown to small companies, but I know from bitter experience how new ideas and startups can be rolled over by the big players who have teams of lobbyists in place. Did this result in low cost, efficient space flight? Look for yourself.

If we nationalize health care, do you really think entities like "Big Pharm" will go away? They will become part of the government institution, freed from any real competition while small companies, unable to play the Big Game, are frozen out.

Do you think this will result in low-cost, efficient health care?

As a control group, the computer industry isn't a bad example. It ran for years while the government was still trying to figure out what the hell a chip was. There was almost no major regulation. Even the largest companies, like Microsoft, had to run as hard as they could to stay ahead of competition. They almost missed the wave entirely on the browser field, and even now, IE has many enthusiastic competitors, and all without a Browser Czar.