Fail Safe

Rachel Marron: "You don't look like a bodyguard."
Frank Farmer: "What'd you expect?"
Rachel Marron: "Well, I don't know, maybe a tough guy?"
Frank Farmer: "This is my disguise."
--The Bodyguard

Nice compilation of government welfare programs, which have been escalating since the Civil War.

The missive's last paragraph is worth pondering:

"We can have a free society or a welfare state. We cannot have both."

It gets back to that core tradeoff: freedom versus security.