Our Lives Should Not Be Dominated By Our Government

I would like to point out the quotation on the right by Patrick Henry. I am worried that our government is coming to dominate our lives and our interests. Can anyone doubt by watching what is happening with the bailout of AIG and others? What about universal health coverage? That is pretty dominating. The problem with domination? This is what the Communists had in mind and employed. Can anyone think this a right way to govern or to be governed? Our Founding Fathers didn't think so either. The reason given for this and many other dominating programs is that it helps the poor and "mainstreet America." Now I would like to insert another quote from the right:

I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.
~Benjamin Franklin, On the Price of Corn and Management of the Poor, November 1766

I believe in what Ben Franklin had to say here. And the truth is that his assertion has been proved.

Another bother to me: earmarks. Yes I know, I just barely addressed those. However, they just keep coming. As I was listening to the news this morning, it was reported that the Congress has passed an interim spending bill. Guess what is included? ... Earmarks! Of course. I think that somehow the public should be allowed a period of time to review any earmarks added to a bill before it can be signed into law. I know that there are groups out there who monitor this sort of thing, but I don't think the job is getting done. It must not be because we still have earmarks.