Because we are mature adults and not children...

Excerpt:

No normal, fully functioning citizen needs the government to survive. Why? Because we are mature adults and not children. We don't need to rely on government. We are independent and we can think for ourselves. And more importantly, we don't need government and its mouthpieces in the media to tell us what to believe. We can see right through the bilge you unleash on us relentlessly, night after night on your so-called "news" broadcasts. And frankly, we are sick and tired of it.

However, in order for politicians with the ideological stripes of Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama, Chuck Schumer, Dick Durbin, Bernie Sanders, Mary Landreau, Dianne Feinstein, Barbara Boxer, Patrick Leahy, and others to continue with their expansion of the power and influence of big government, they must convince the populace that we cannot do without them and their costly programs that have brought the nation to the brink of bankruptcy.

Such thinking is regressive.

By the time a person reaches adulthood we as a society expect them to be able to work a job, make their own money, choose and live in their own home, pay their own bills, and in essence, show some degree of self-sufficiency. Those who reach adulthood but cannot do these things we refer to as mentally impaired...

Click here to read the entire article at Anthony G. Martin's National Conservative Examiner.