In 2014 dollars that would be more like the half million dollar question.
The answer is not pleasant to contemplate. Smaller government is the solution but we won't get it, I fear, unless we physically drag people out of their offices and change the locks.
Yes, I know what I am suggesting. Like I said, not pleasant. I wonder if the founding fathers would have signed the Declaration of Independence if they had had ESPN, the internet, 99 weeks of unemployment benefits and Obamacare.
I can’t disagree with anything you said (although surely, our founders weren’t so vapid, shallow, & easily amused). I’d hope that it would be enough to show up with liquor store boxes, order them to clean out their desks, & we’ll escort them out, but speaking of easily amused... I’m sure they’d find that hysterical.