NSA collecting Verizon customers' data

[Great-Kazoo]

it is all about the money and the power...largest source of income on the planet...the US taxpayer...it is .gov of the people, no more!

Eventually everyone will either work for, or be supported by, the government.

[Gman]

Eventually everyone will either work for, or be supported by, the government.

That's already the case. The government has no money without taking from the productive. Anyone supported by "the government", is simply receiving the redistribution of the wealth produced by others, minus of course the huge bite from government overhead. If nobody is working in the private sector, there's no money to redistribute.

Ask the former Soviet Union how well that works when there's a disincentive to being productive.