Very good points, Uncle Bob!!! ---and the payroll to keep all these bureaucrats on federal, state, county, and local government payrolls has to be a phenomenal dollar number as well!!!!! How many programs, studies, research facilities, and government agencies been established just to justify hiring more and more employees are established annually?? Maybe the governments intention is to hire all of us so that we will become good little bureaucrats and keep our mouths shut to preserver our government paycheck??? Who knows what these clowns in DC are up to, anyway other then piling up debts that can never be paid???