Reply #5: Like I said, go ahead and trust it if you like.

[Ron Mexico]

I prefer not to risk it. At least businesses tend to die. Once anything goes government, you never go back. I believe government involvement should be a last resort (and, for the record, I am not even sold on the idea of the feds running social programs - I'd prefer to see states doing it). My conservative co-workers and I rail on each other constantly, but one thing we agree on is that government is too big and too powerful (of course, we don't agree how to trim it).

You apparently don't see out-of-control Big Government as a risk. I do, and so did Clinton and Gore. The so-called fiscal conservatives in the GOP railed against Big Government for years but now don't see it as a problem - which is enough of a red flag for me. I scoff at comparisons between us and 1930's Germany, and at any rate just because history is to be learned from does not mean the future is limited to what's happened in the past.

If I'm right and it gets out of control, there is no turning back. Exactly how big do you want government to get?