The government got us into this financial mess. Are we to believe it can get us out? No house can invest in bad deals and continue solvent. Government is so immune to real-life economics -- it thinks it can spend and bestow its largess upon the needy populace -- with political gain for interest -- that it has broken the bank.

The present economic crisis is cousin to the immigration issue. Government acts from self-promotion, rather than for the good of the people. Government sees opportunity for more power and further entrenchment in the halls of incumbency and decides accordingly. Compassion is the cape which conceals ambition.

Only by popular revolt of the voters will any significant progress be made. Do not trust government to solve the problem by throwing gas on the fire. Earlier, I wrote poetically on this problem.

Voters should again pick up the issue of limited terms. Only when elected officials know they will soon be returning home will they have any motivation to think more in terms of the voters than their own preservation.

The experience so often touted as necessary -- and used against term limits, but diminished in some political campaigns -- is shown to be false from the area of education. For decades government has thrown money at the declining quality of public schools and the unions have pompously insisted that only qualified personnel can adequately be trusted to train the children. All the while home-schooling moms and dads across the U.S. are consistently producing children whose knowledge far surpasses that of graduates from public and private institutions of learning.

If experience is the qualifier, Congress and other elected officials have shown themselves true greenhorns to have let the economic crisis come to a head. They can't even balance their personal budgets, much less the country's, something millions of normal families do every month.

Now they put themselves forward as our economic saviors.

Seems to be a prime example -- and we've had so many lately -- of hubris.