knightrider wrote:
A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a
(DICTATORSHIP).
Thomas Jefferson warned of this 200 years ago. If Congress ever has the power to write their own paychecks.