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The Dummy's Guide to the U.S. Financial Crisis

Some statements of truth by far greater minds from long ago:
If you want to control a country, control it's money.
The most efficient way to get and keep power is to get the citezenry to give it to you.
The most efficient way to get people to give you power is to make them dependant upon you.
The most efficient way to make people dependant on you, is to erode the concept of self dependence, personal responsibility, and ultimately, self determination.
Crises and panic are tools of the state to get more power.

When this country first started, 0% of the population was dependant on the government for all, or a substantial portion of, their ability to survive. Today, about 40% of the population is dependant on government programs and/or "entitlements" for their ability to survive. At what point will the percentage enable the government to dictate the terms of everyone's life? The natural evolution of democracy inevitably leads back to tyranny, from which the original inception of democracy arose. At some point, some degree of anarchy is required. Anarchy is a perfectly reasonable option, but only when freedom is more impotant than comfort.

Who among us has ever voted for the "lesser of two evils?" Or voted for a candidate, not knowing what their core beliefs and fundemental philisophical principles were? Of the available choices for president, who here thinks they know, and agree with, their core beliefs and fundemental philisophical principles? Does anyone think that the current mechanisms of government still allow for quality governance at the Federal level? Why is the Federal government involved in anything other than protection from force or fraud?