"A wise and frugal government" automatically insinuates that it is small. You cannot have a large gov't that's frugal by its very definition.
You would be correct if the "frugal" in question is from the Latin; however, nadin knows that Jefferson was brilliant beyond his years and based HIS frugal on the Twikardi language from a small planet in the Alpha Centuri system.
The "frugal" based on the Twikardi word "Frugg-L" means "vast, cumbersome, over-reaching, and over-spending."
Nadin just knows this stuff. Most people don't because them public schools ain't learnin' folks like they s'posed to.