Your post speaks volumes about your character.
Perhaps you are right. I tend to be self-reliant, and don't complain much.
To attempt to put it more tactfully, your experience and those of many others, are evidence that the government as almighty protector/savior we've been fed for about the last 60 years is just not always so.Now, should it be?Thats another question but the problem is it probably can't be with 100% total effectiveness.But, we are generations into believing it is and should be.