If you really believe the U.S. is still "By the People for the People", you are sadly mistaken! We live in a country now that gives more rights to illegal aliens, and people that just sit on their a-- collecting a paycheck every month, (YES I'M TALKING ABOUT THE WELFARE CLAN!) Just a side note; Do people that collect a welfare check have to pay taxes?, just wondering. Why is it that true Americans can't wake up and see what these politicians are doing to our country? It is because we as a nation have let it happen. I grant you if enough AMERICANS stood in Washington and said NO, WE ARE NOT GOING TO PAY ANYMORE OF YOUR BULLSH-T TAXES!, then we could start making a difference. Why should we have to go to work every day knowing that the Government gets their cut before you get your paycheck? I feel that we should have more say in where our money is going. Honestly, how many poor politicians do you know? I second the opinion that each state can govern itself. The way it has gone on in my lifetime, we might as well have stayed under British rule!!! While I'm at it, why do American taxes get spent on other countries, when we have people in America that have worked all their lives, payed taxes, but yet are losing everything they've worked hard for. There will be another revolutionary war soon, but this time it will be against our own TYRANT, (government). Soon America will have only two classes of people, THE RICH and THE POOR! I don't want to sit idley by and keep letting our country be ruled this way. Whatever happened to "The Land Of The Free, And The Home Of The Brave"? It's become, "THE LAND OF THE TAXED, HOME OF THE SPINELESS"!!!! WAKE UP AMERICA!!!!!!