[cmccuist]

The US spends between $400 and $500 billion/year on welfare programs. There are 23 different ways to get food stamps. If you take Medicare, prescription drug programs, social security and all other types of government cheese to thier logical conclusion, you have what was the former soviet union.

No other country or government in the world could have produced a Bill Gates - or a Racerbvd for that matter - where personal hard work, innovation and initiative are rewarded.