Bailout to Handout

     Well here we go again, it seems Washington is not happy unless they are spending yours and my tax dollars.  I don't mind paying my fair share of taxes as long as it goes for things like roads, schools, police, national defense etc.  My frustration is when it goes for all these liberal social programs.  Now I am as compassionate as the next person, and yes I believe people need assistance from time to time, but not from cradle to grave.

     We taxpayers support 52.6 percent of Americans through government programs.  According to an analysis by Gary Shilling, an economist in Springfield, N.J.  That's up from 49.4 percent in 2000 and far above the 28.3 percent of Americans in 1950. If the trend continues, the percentage could rise within ten years to pass 55 percent, where it stood in 1980 on the eve of President Reagan's move to scale back the size of government.

      If this so called "bailout" goes through, and I think it will, then my greatest fear will be that the government will continue to grow.  One day it will be so large and so powerful that America will make the old Soviet Union seem like Disneyland.