Base your answer to question 43 on the passage

below and on your knowledge of social studies.

…In this present crisis, government is not the

solution to our problem; government is the

problem. From time to time we’ve been tempted

to believe that society has become too complex to

be managed by self-rule, that government by an

elite group is superior to government for, by, and

of the people. Well, if no one among us is capable

of governing himself, then who among us has the

capacity to govern someone else? All of us

together, in and out of government, must bear the

burden. The solutions we seek must be equitable,

with no one group singled out to pay a higher

price.…

— President Ronald Reagan, Inaugural Address,

January 20, 1981

The Reagan administration tried to deal with the

situation described in this statement by

(1) limiting the role of the federal government

(2) reducing military defense expenditures

(3) increasing regulations on business

(4) expanding the power of federal employee

unions