[nobama08]

You simply take responsibility and move on.

[RogerFGay]

And if you can't afford to pay the arbitrary amounts demanded - that were never part of the original agreement - and don't make sense in context?

You're missing the main issue here. There's a gargantuan difference between "taking responsibility" and being crushed by a corrupt bureacracy. They're pretty much opposites when you actually consider the thing.

The bureaucracy is there to assure that no-one has the opportunity to take personal responsibility. That's what the personal life verses government intrusion thing is all about.