"Our current economic issues are a simple supply and demand problem. There is a lot of demand for free goodies – some free, some earned – and an ever smaller supply of people willing and able to hoof the bill. Political consultants will tell you that people have a hard time believing that they voted for the wrong person. It is easier for them to believe that they were tricked by the politician into voting for them. Well, if the politicians have been lying, then it is a lie we all wanted to believe. According to polls a large percentage of people continue to believe that the government can continue its deficit spending in perpetuity. One only has to look at this last month’s elections in France and Greece as examples." - Morton Fox from Bookmarklet