Ads on Google and Facebook

I keep seeing ads online about how I can get my part of the bailout money that is coming. I've also heard some tongue in cheek ads on local radio alluding to the upcoming "stimulus" and how those companies wishe that their bailout money would come. It all reminds me of a certain economist from the 1800's.

'Men naturally rebel against the injustice of which they are victims. Thus, when plunder is organized by law for the profit of those who make the law, all the plundered classes try somehow to enter -- by peaceful or revolutionary means -- into the making of laws. According to their degree of enlightenment, these plundered classes may propose one of two entirely different purposes when they attempt to attain political power: Either they may wish to stop lawful plunder, or they may wish to share in it."

It saddens me to think that the US is devolving into a place where the government is where money comes from. It is the predominant view in Yemen and other places like it, is the US like that?

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