You have just hit the nail on the head - Are we expecting too much from our government? Why is there an expectation that a super-parent called "government" instead of mommy and daddy is supposed to take care of all us as "dependents?" When do we become responsible for our own successes, failures, wants and needs?

We have now welfare families who are multi-generational. The list of "entitlements" is becoming endless, and they are generally paid for by persons who don't have any desire for them.

Yes, we are expecting too much from the few who pay taxes to fund this super-parent. When "the State is Mother; the State is Father," the child never is allowed to become an adult, but instead remains in economic bondage and never ever acquires the freedoms the Founding Fathers wanted their progeny to experience.