[fabsroman]

If the government were a business, it would be out of business. How many businesses could be in as much debt as the US government and still operate? I don't doubt that it is a maze to get assistance from the government. Sad thing is that we probably need a government this size to deal with all the issues we have in our current world.

Of course, the government could probably be managed a little better. Problem is that it will be tough to change decades and decades of culture within the system. Kind of like cutting off long term assistance programs to those that have been in the system for decades and those that grew up under the welfare system and then entered the welfare system. Imagine cutting all those benefits off to people that have been on them for decades.

Now, I am all for making government more stream lined, cutting off welfare/public assistance for all those except the ones that really need it, lowering the tax rate, decreasing the nations deficit, increasing savings among Americans, getting all immigrants to pay taxes, getting all US citizens to pay their fair share of taxes, closing the borders, working something out for those illegal immigrants already here (e.g., you can stay as long as you haven't committed a felony in the US), etc. Problem is that these problems are not very easy to solve. Throw in the price of gas and alternative fuel, and can you imagine what it is like to be the President of the United States. All of this is only the tip of the iceberg.