Originally Posted by Botnst

I hope people never trust their government. Government's sole function is restriction of freedom. We are glad to give-up dangerous, chaotic behavior for order and security so we band together and form a government to impose order. It is in our nature to want things to improve so we have a continual push by one group or another to impose their utopian agenda on the rest of us. That is human nature.

Like Reagan said of a different gov, "Trust, but verify."

Bot