I need to flesh out my point that FDR's "New Deal" is where things started to go wrong.
While an argument can be made that the Civil War is where our government started to go wrong, "We the people" are independent from the government. The Founding Fathers, by virtue of their character, rose above a much more repressive system to claim their freedom. The government cannot be fingered for our current predicament � we only have ourselves to blame.
The �New Deal� was a wondrous program designed to protect America�s citizenry and aid in the advancement of our infrastructure. �We the people� have bastardized the system with our demands of government and by our vote. We can�t fault a democratically elected government for acting as a mother bird feeding its clamoring chicks. Our government is only doing what we tell them to do.
