@bud405n 182877 wrote:
—when voters look to the president for salvation from all problems great and small—
People look at the government as some sort of omni-potent thing all right.
People expect that government pay for wars, ifrastructure, local woes, state pork, welfare, medicine, failed businesses, failed banks and whatnot while lowering taxes for everyone.
It doesn’t seem to occur to anyone that somebody needs to pay the piper.
Just like you and me, government can only spend what it has, and when it spends more it takes out loans. The nations who make the loans own an evergrowing percentage of the US. At this time we are in such deep debt that we cannot conceive of paying it back. So – lets bail out more businesses, pay mortgages for individuals, cut some more taxes and pretend all is well. :tongue:
I think the root of that is that people do see the government as omnipotent.