Norrin, you can always cherry-pick things the government is doing that you don't want them to do or that they're fucking up on. Without a liberal interpretation of the general welfare clause, we would also have no interstate highways, no transcontinental railroads, no Social Security or such socialized medicine services as we have now (absurdly inadequate though they be), no government support for science or the arts, no space program, no aid to the poor. I would not want to do without any of these, nor would I want to close the door on foreign aid altogether which is a valuable tool of diplomacy, even if some individual examples I would like to see changed or abolished.

Hamilton's vision prevailed. We are an industrialized great power. We will never again be a pre-industrial nation of small farmers. (Even to the extent we ever were.) Both he and Jefferson agreed that a stronger central government is a requirement for an industrialized great power, and that's why Jefferson didn't want one, as well as why Hamilton did. Because Jefferson didn't want us to be an industrizalized great power.

But we are. End of story. At this point, once convinced that we can't return to bygone days and his original vision is now impossible, Jefferson himself would be a big-government advocate, although presumably one for the little guy and not in service to big business.