Originally Posted by
Gen6
Why is so much needed this time for a much smaller problem that a fairly easy and much smaller, targeted bailout would suffice?
They are expanding federal government control for endearment or enslavement of the population at large to their benefactors in congress. The politicians are buying votes with the public's money.
Pick your favorite from the list of debunked quotes on the matter. The last was a confirmed piece from an oped in the 50s.
"When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic." - Benjamin Franklin“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money”
-Alexis De Tocqueville
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury. After that, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits with the result the democracy collapses because of the loose fiscal policy ensuing, always to be followed by a dictatorship, then a monarchy." -