@H2O MAN,
I just find it so ironic to read all this fear of government from the same source who believes in wire tapping without warrants and banning same sex marriages ECT.
We live in a democracy, those in government are governed by us the people, so when our government does something we have it in us to control what they do either by our election cycles and/or various forms of protest. Evidently since Obama's poll numbers are pretty good, most people seem to like his agenda. Socialist or not.