Bribing the public with the public's money | Washington Examiner

Examiner Editorial: Bribing the public with the public's money Washington Examiner
"as government control and dependency increases, American competitiveness at home and abroad decreases.

The United States was ranked No. 1 by the Geneva-based World Economic Forum in 2008, but slipped to second place last year and is now fourth -- behind Switzerland, Sweden and Singapore.

In his 1835 classic 'Democracy in America,' Alexis de Tocqueville prophetically warned, 'The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.'

Now that the politicians have made that discovery, the issue is what will the public do about it this November."