Who's responsibility?

I won't dispute that. However, if we're going to separate people and government for the purpose of this discussion, then I don't think that the problem is government. It's the people. Government is just a skeleton and people are the muscles, organs, and tissue that keep it up. If government is failing in any of its duties, it's the peoples' fault.

Government is just a skeleton and people are the muscles, organs, and tissue that keep it up

That's actually a really good analogy. Our cells are not governed by a central authority, the job they do is only ever as good as the cell itself...

ren wrote:

Government is just a skeleton and people are the muscles, organs, and tissue that keep it up

That's actually a really good analogy. Our cells are not governed by a central authority, the job they do is only ever as good as the cell itself...

Well, if cells could elect a brain your anaology would work.

Also, in terms of anatomy, individual cells do have a lot of functions that are in fact independent of the brain. My skin cell attached to a nerve will tell the brain when it gets cut, but the brain doesn't dictate to the skin cell how its golgi complex works.

Arkayik wrote:

Jestor wrote: Once I post things, I can clear my head again...

Just wondering, did it work?

Was posting this cathartic and were you then able to clear it from your head?

Yes...

When I roll ideas around I'm my head, like clay, soon I have all the rough edges off...

When I share it with others, the first thing they do is flatten it, and start to reshape it....

As I said, I have no issue helping people, and I do...

Rosalyn, you are not being compared to the cable bill...

What was being compared, is only so much money comes in, and so much goes out...

When you don't have enough income, and you cannot pay your bills, you have to start cutting back, is my premise...

I'm glad the services exist, I truly am...

And I'm sorry you missed my comparison, I really am...

My point is, we, and by that, I mean the US, cannot continue the way it has...

Thank you everyone for your comments...

I see where I was stuck....

Not to step on any toes but for most people Social Security is not a charity. It was a savings account that earns interest, so that when one retired or can no longer work, they have some money to help support themselves. I hat SS being called a welfare or a charity, or a government handout. To use references like that is like saying money you've put into your private savings is welfare. Our government broke the law when they started dipping their hands into our SS accounts, and like a bunch of uneducated cowards we sat back and let them continue to do it.