The Nanny State mentality has created the concept that government is here to take care of your problems and shortcomings rather than to protect citizens' rights.

It surprises me that so simple a concept can be so overwhelmed due to the complacency or corruption of the leaders who were supposed to carry on what our founders saw as so clear and concise they failed to anticipate the ability of politicians and criminals, er I repeat myself, to twist words to their benefit.