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 WASHINGTON Obama's desire to tackle the important issues and resolve this financial crisis is

 concerning Colin Powell and he offers this advice, "Take a hard look at costs and consider the additional

 red tape that will be created."

"The right answer is, 'Give me a government that works,"' the former secretary of state said in a           

television interview to be aired Sunday. "Keep it as small as possible," added Powell, who said                                                                

he has spoken recently with Obama and stays in touch with him. Powell, a Republican,

endorsed Obama last year over the GOP presidential nominee, Arizona Sen. John McCain.

Obama wants to revamp the health care system and take on climate change while also helping

the country emerge from the recession.

"I think one of the cautions that has to be given to the president - and I've talked to some of his

people about this - is that you can't have so many things on the table that you can't absorb it all.

And we can't pay for it all," Powell said.

"And I never would have believed that we would have budgets that are running into the multi-trillions

of dollars, and we are amassing a huge, huge national debt that, if we don't pay for in our lifetime,

our kids and grandkids and great grandchildren will have to pay for it."

"Keep it as small as possible. Keep the tax burden on the American people as small as possible,

but at the same time, have government that is solving the problems of the people," he said.

He said Obama "has to start really taking a very, very hard look at what the cost of all this is. And,

how much additional bureaucracy and will it be effective bureaucracy."

CNN released excerpts of the interview in advance of the broadcast.