How did reagan try to make the government smaller? check all that apply. he cut funding for drug programs and federal drug-control agencies. he eliminated government programs to address money mismanagement. he decreased spending on nuclear weapons and anti-ballistic missiles. he proposed cutting funding to certain government agencies and groups. he reduced government regulations on business.

“well,” he says, “there’s excuse for picks and letting-on, in a case like this; if it warn’t so, i wouldn’t approve of it, nor i wouldn’t stand by and see the rules broke—because right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better. it might answer for you to dig jim out with a pick, without any letting-on, because you don’t know no better; but it wouldn’t for me, because i do know better.” the meaning in this excerpt is