[Hoot Gibson]

Government is just people, men and women. "Politicians" can be just as self-serving and greedy as any man or woman can be. The human race produces a Hitler; it produces a Ghandi, an Abraham Lincoln. One of "governments" chief tasks is to restrain corrupt human nature. One of the chief dangers of government is that it is made up of people with corrupt human natures, thus a system of checks and balances on power was and is very wise. Enron executives stole the pony and closed the show. I think corporations show a love of money above people that the government doesn't match.

Corporations have lifted millions of people out of poverty without even trying. The federal government has trapped millions of people in poverty by creating a culture of dependency that is as addictive as the most dangerous drugs on our streets. We have third and fourth generations of people who have been government dependants most of their lives.

The average wage for federal employees is more than twice that of employees working in the private sector and who pays those wages? We, the taxpayers do, along with the Chinese government and other foreign investors who loan the federal government the money to overpay federal workers.

Our federal government grows bigger and greedier by the day. It is sucking the life out of the private sector and if that is not a display of blatant disregard for the general public's interest, then maybe you need to define that phrase for us.