Glenn Beck makes a great point. Around the 1930's we started taking on massive liberal ideas. The FED, social security and everything else. Those systems worked at the time, but then the population grew, more people needed medicare, social security and welfare. We continued to spend more on schools - despite their failures. Our politicians have been taking pay increases, and we've waged many wars to spread our influence. Now our system is falling a part, and while the whole t-note system might say we're still okay, we're out of control.