[Dimples]

I infer from your posts that you'd prefer to PROTECT incumbancy

Not at all.

Then I don't understand why you raise the issue about governments falling when people face hard times. I guess I suffer from the expectation that when a person bring an assertion into a discussion that the assertion was actually intended to have a bearing on the discussion.

[liberallarry]

Then I don't understand why you raise the issue about governments falling when people face hard times.

To underline the difficulties a government faces when it imposes hard times.

The quickest and surest way to solve our current financial problems is to shut down govnerment until the debt is paid. Taxes coming in + Nothing going out = No debt in record time.

Try it.