That is really what all of these bailouts, fear, and fear-mongering is all about.  The vain attempt to establish financial security.

First and foremost there is no such thing as financial security.  It is a pipe dream and searching for it will cause you to give up the very mechanisms that create financial success.  You give up risk, lose profit potential, and become a slave to whomever is supposedly providing this security.  It will cause you to become subservient to others and in the end cost you everything.  The person who would trade freedom and independence to the government in exchange for some financial guarantee is not American.  History shows us that a governmental system that attempts to provide this security will fail.  There is no changing human nature.  Selfishness and greed are universal.  They dictate that such a society will decay and fall.

Every American regardless of race is the spiritual successor to the colonists and pilgrims.  These are people who left the safety and security of Europe and said to themselves and the world I can do better on my own.  They struck out into a wilderness that was an ocean away and with amazing speed built the wealthiest nation in the history of the Earth.  The only security they had was the strength of their will and the love of their families.

They succeeded because they rejected security and embraced freedom and depended on their families.  This is elemental but it seems that it needs to be repeated.  Our political leaders at least have forgotten this principle.  They do not care for long term health of our country or society they only worry about the effect an economic collapse will have on their re-election chances.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

I am afraid the day is coming soon when these words hold a whole new meaning for those of us still looking to the example set by the people who lived them.