[Cincinatus' Wife]

Unfortunately too many Americans are beginning to believe the government owes them, when in fact they need to understand the government is bleeding them dry.

[backhoe]

Agreed, and one of the biggest problems is that there is a large group of citizens ( mostly made up of those who also feel they are "entitled" to various benefits ) who thinks the government has a big bag of money lying around that can be dipped into at will.

They have no concept of the concept that government has no money, except what it extracts from others.

It's kind of like Lotto-- people are blinded by the size of the payoff and don't realize ( or want to think about ) the fact that for there to be one winner, there must be many, many losers- or that the money comes out of funds that would otherwise be spent on people's families.

[from occupied ga]

Unfortunately too many Americans are beginning to believe the government owes them, when in fact they need to understand the government is bleeding them dry.

What's unfortunate is that the people who believe that the "government" owes them are not the same people who the government is bleeding dry.

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Unfortunately too many Americans are beginning to believe the government owes them, when in fact they need to understand the government is bleeding them dry.

AAAAAAAAAAAFREEPIN MEN! That thought ought to somehow become a ballot initiative that every adult in this country needs to go to a five-day tax education course during which people find out just how much of their earned dollars are going to some form of taxation and just what, exactly, those taxes are being spent on.