What is the most destructive force at work in the U.S.?

(published 24-Nov-2003, Appleton Post-Crescent)

Faith in government, by far. Juvenal described it as "Bread and circuses". Take the recent furor over the proposed Medicare prescription drug bill. What do we see in the news? "Any bill is better than no bill" or "No bill is better than a bad bill." Never any argument that this would turn into another monstrous and costly albatross around our necks. Social Security will run out of money very shortly. So why do we want to saddle ourselves with another extremely expensive program? The answer is simple: our leaders want us to vote for them. They want to nurture the belief that the government can solve all our problems. They want us dependent upon government for everything. Some of us believe it already. We are rapidly approaching what Rudyard Kipling foresaw as the time "when all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins."

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