Chacha says "and yet we move further and further away from dependence on our Creator and on our friends and neighbors, as it should be, to dependence on our new god, the government....'

Are you saying that we should depend on churches and charities and not government assistance to the needy? Churches and chariites can do only so much while the government has much more money. Instead of huge amounts of foreign aid to countries who do not like us (Pakistan), let's have more domestic assistance so families can be helped off the dole and put back to work.

A welfare to work program can certainly be started and maintained that even the Tea Party should like.