I am less concerned with 'who' or 'what party' did thus and so. Focus more on the larger issue of 'do you want government having your money'. It is amazing to me that people will never say they trust politicians, yet people instinctively are more upset with an oil company making a million on $0.08 a gallon of gas, meanwhile the government makes billions on $0.56 per gallon of gas.
Do you trust government with your retirement? Do you trust lawyers and politicians with your hard earned money? If not, stop voting people in government that promise big government handouts, because in order to hand out, they have to take from you.
Honestly, I can't even blame politicians completely. It's the ignorant American public. The '95 budget battle is proof of American stupidity. Here the repugs shut down the government explicitly over having a balanced budget, and the repugs got shamacked over it. So did the American people really want a balanced budget? No, they wanted their SS, Medicare, Medicaid, Section 8, Public housing, Food stamps, Welfare and on and on....
Just look at the national health care issue. You think that is going to help balance the budget? Of course not. But we have too many people who don't really care about the good of the nation, and just want free stuff from the government.
