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In 2003 the U.S. government spent a massive $20,000 per household. Is it just me, or does anyone else sense that the U.S. government has morphed into the functional equivalent of a criminal organization? The newspaper today reported that the Congress is spending over $7 billion on earmarks give-aways to industrial park corporations and other such pork in the latest cash-for-votes appropriations package. I can't think of this in any other way than as armed theft from my wife and I and our children -- money taken by force from my family and given to some politically connected friends of the criminal conspiracy called the U.S. Congress. And I'm not sure the U.S. government in all of its infinite wisdom is protecting me any better than would John Gotti.