I find the comment telling, but not troubling. The comment is simply a sign of the current sentiment of many people. I mean really, look at Greece and see what happens when people do not get what they think they deserve, they turn over cars and set them on fire and threaten to riot and burn the country down. In the USA its even worse, like a double barrel shotgun. You have those who believe they deserve it, and those that are sick of supporting those that think they deserve it and are pissed at those that force them to support it.
The way our founders founded this country was by revolution, the only way this country can end due to the wisdom used in its design, is by revolution. I have no question about that no matter how much I may dislike it. I accept the fact of the matter for what it is.
We have not seen the beginning of the madness yet. The rates on 7 and 10 year bonds keep rising, states cannot cover their deficit and government seems to have some kind of magic purse that shits out trillion dollar bills. There is NO WAY for this to have a happy ending.
Come on dude...
Bread and Circuses does work.
Look at ancient Rome.
LOL.
Time for me to roll it out again:
"The America of today is a laboratory example if what can happen to democracies, what has eventually happened to all perfect democracies throughout history. A perfect democracy, a 'warm body' democracy in which every adult may vote and all votes count equally, has no internal feedback for self-correction. It depends solely on the wisdom and self-restaint of citizens... which is opposed by the folly and lack of self-restraint of other citizens. What is supposed to happen in a democracy is that each soveriegn citizen will always vote in public interest for the safety and welfare of all. But what does happen is that he votes his own self-interest as he sees it... which for the majority translates as 'Bread and Circuses'.
Bread and Circuses is the cancer of democracy, the fatal disease for which there is no cure. Democracy often works beautifully at first. But once the state extends the franchise to every warm body, be he producer or parasite, that day marks the beginning of the end of the state. For when the plebs discover that they can vote themselves bread and circuses without limit and that the productive members of the body politic cannot stop them, they will do so, until the state bleeds to death, or in it's weakened condition the state succums to an invader - the barbarians enter Rome."