Do I want the government having my money? Well, they need some of it to maintain the military and provide for the common defense. They need some to secure the border. They need to be able to build highways, bridges, and railroads to promote the general welfare. They don't need to be giving it away, nor do they need to be spending more than I give them.
Stop voting in people who promise big government handouts you say? Just who are the people who are not promising big government handouts to someone? it seems as if the main debate is over who gets those handouts, not over whether the government should be in the business of giving away money.
It's the ignorant American public, you say? Well, there is some evidence for that. No one seems to care about that $30,000 per citizen debt our representatives have run up, nor about the fact that they've mismanaged the social security program to the point that people now paying into the system don't think they'll ever get anything out of it. They may be right, too, if the government keeps giving the funds away to people who haven't earned it and spending it on pet projects.
As for Social Security and Medicare, those programs have been self sustaining for a long time, and don't need to be ended. What needs to be done is to take the funds out of the general fund, and only spend the money that has been collected for what is was intended for, then start paying back all of the IOU's.
Health care is another boondoggle. We spend more than any other nation for our health care. That's just a simple fact. We're the only nation that doesn't have a single payer universal care. That's another fact. Could our government run health care in a fiscally sound way, and keep us solvent? They haven't shown the ability to run anything in a fiscally responsible way to date, yet other country's governments do. It's time to call for an accounting, then fire anyone who can't account for the money they've spent.
