[Siamese Princess]

Hello, again. The problem is that the more the government does for people the less able and willing they are to do for themselves and others and the less able and willing they are to do for themselves and others the more the government has an excuse to do for them. It's a downward spiral of government spending followed by dependency, followed by even more government spending, etc.

On top of that, more and more people for purely selfish and greedy reasons don't want to pay their own bills (even if they have the money) or take on resonsibilities (even if they are capable). They want to sponge off of their fellow citizens and push off their resonsibilities on taxpayer-funded employees. The American people, collectively, are spoiled rotten.

[Dont_Tread_On_Me_888]

Agree 100%.

And, isn't that what is happening now with world welfare? The U.N. runs a trumped-up fundraising drive practically every month trying to make America (and some others) feel guilty about not throwing more $$$ to the third world.

Look at what is happening as we speak. The G-7 meeting has the G-7 agreeing to forgive the debt to the tune of about $100 billion. The more we pump into global welfare, the larger the black hole becomes.

You are dead on target, and it is happening globally as well as in the U.S. Our children and grandchildren will inherit a poor nation bordering on third world status the way we are destroying our treasury.