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I’m starting to feel the same way about government enablers, financial supporters, consenting victims — ie, income tax payers

Here is the situation - as a whole - and you are both correct (this is a realization that is hitting MANY homes in America): the system is not just BROKE, it is a JOKE!

As wintertime has stated, the education system has done a great job of dumbing-down and pacifying many Americans, especially those 14-30 years old. They believe that the American dream is a new house, a new car, the latest and greatest of every electronic device and your entire life hocked to banks, loans and credit cards. They are able to live this lifestyle with the abundant assistance of welfare, food stamps, etc... These people think that this is the purpose of the Government to provide houses, car incentives, food and overall guidance on how we should spend our money and lives. I know people who have stated, "Why get a job, I can have sex, have a kid and then my food stamps go up another $300 a month!"

What the great recession of 2008 did was wake many an American up from their stupor. Many Americans realized that one little "pop" and the entire system is shown to be the broke, joke that we currently have. Many Americans are just now starting to crawl out to daylight and are just now able to live not just paycheck to paycheck, but actually month to month. It will take a LONG time (if ever) before most of America returns to the ways of our forefathers - those who had to have enough food/money/supplies stored not just for this year, but for the next JUST IN CASE the crops failed or the markets crashed or the Indians invaded! It is very difficult, nay almost IMPOSSIBLE, to convince someone that tomorrow may really be this difficult, when they can actually walk to 7-11 for a hotdog, candy bar and 6-pack of beer.

Unfortunately, the government is trying to lull Americans back to sleep with bailouts, priming the pump (QE1-QE(Infinity)) and saying "Everything is fine; the recovery is happening." The government is ENCOURAGING, BEGGING and goading Americans into going back to sleep: credit rates at an all time low, buy it - it helps the economy, etc... The most unfortunate aspect is that many Americans are just fine with going back to sleep or burying their heads hoping that all this will go away when Obama is defeated.

The problem which conservatives are starting to realize is that sooner or later that "pop" is going to be the last wrench in the monkey-works and there won't be a 7-11 and there won't even be a job to be had - then what? Those who are not fully awake are AFRAID! They are afraid of both the lack of government support AND they are afraid of having to be self-reliant! More importantly, most of them are AFRAID of real FREEDOM! They really don't know how to live their life without the government there to tell them what they can build, what they can grow, what they can eat, who they can hire, what self-serving sense they can use (i.e., not allowing background checks for new hires), etc... These people are literally in a catch-22! So, many of them (especially those who are just burying their heads waiting-out Obama) keep working, hoping the government will be their "catch-all."

What we have seen with the government created/subsidized balloons (dot.coms, housing, etc...) we are just moving from one failure to the next and they are coming faster and faster. We are almost to a point where defiance, be it physical, financial or whatever, is going to be a MUST!