We have become a nation of sloths. We would rather avoid work and accept a handout from the government rather than earn a honest day's wage. Our government is spending us into a debt abyss from which we will never recover. The government is paying people to stay home because Uncle Sam is giving more money than what an employer can afford to pay them. There was a time when people were embarrassed to be on the dole, not any more. Hey, that's what the government is for --- to give us money when we need it.

We have allowed our government to become more and more socialistic, just like Europe, an...