A depressing headline today.  Why do people have such financial problems in this country?  Probably because they're taking a cue from their government.  Spend like there's no tomorrow.  There was really no chance that our government could show some restraint and get the financial house in order.  Sure, it will pass it off as necessary domestic programs or throw some "existing necessary programs need more funding or they'll go broke" fear, but the bottom line is, they've swindled you out of your hard earned money again.

The old saying from an unknown author goes:

"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years.
Great nations rise and fall. The people go from bondage to spiritual truth, to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, from dependence back again to bondage."

We keep inching closer and closer as we vote for the expansion of government.