All along we’ve been complaining about the debt, yet they kept spending, and spending and spending.
The politicians must believe that the cavalry is going to show up with their checkbook to save the day. Kinda like “It’s a Wonderful Life”, I guess.
But like all collectivism, in the end force will be necessary to make people work to produce revenue for the state. We’re not that far away from that time.
They, however, are a band of thieving and kidnapping outlaws and renegades. And in the "It's A Wonderful Life" of 2011 we show up with ledger books, tar and feathers and handcuffs to take these tyrant crooks to jail -- to the great relief of the suffering townspeople.