The Federal Govt. is just too damn big. And it's made itself the provider for too many people. That gives the politicians all the power.
Or as Benjamin Franklin said:
"I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means.—I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.
In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer.
And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer."
Of course the big govt people on here will make snide remarks about "pulling yourself up by the boot straps" and how some people in the U.S. don't have enough opportunity, etc. etc.
To which I would say: Just read what Mr. Franklin wrote there. And then take a look at poverty, unemployment, etc.
You would think that IF big govt "helping" people really did work that it wouldn't be this way after FIFTY years and TRILLIONS of dollars from the Federal Gov. on the "War On Poverty".
The concept is a failure and always has been throughout history.
And now we are setting ourselves up to expand the Feds power even greater.
Pure genius.
