[Superman]

I'd like to point something out here. Government is not "them." Paul, and others of your ilk, to the degree that goverment is "them" instead of "us," it is "our" fault instead of "theirs." Of course, if your goal is to preserve the right to complain as a victim, then you'll continue to stay uninvolved, uninformed. But if the people were to take hold of public policy making, then we'd have a democracy and that could lead to, who knows...maybe government by the people, for the people. Another untested social concept.

Of course, I do my share of complaining (like on Page 1 of this thread, for example), but I also am involved. I just feel so alone......

BTW, you'd be surprised to find out what a human process occurs during your state legislative sessions. How many have attended a legislative hearing? They don't know what you don't tell them. The lobbyists are there always. It's the voice of the people that is so often absent from the testimony list. If you're not there, then it's government of the people, by the corporations, for the corporations. Make sense? Not to me.