Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote about Americans developing self-reliance in a period of time and extremely low population that taking care of ourselves was a reachable goal.

Fast forward to 310,000,000 folks to rub elbows with. Society has become so complicated in every aspect that self-reliance makes itself available to only the healthy, the wealthy, and those blessed with an intelligence quotient that sparks the imagination for new products. i.e. google, face book, Microsoft, or artists who are able to sell the products of their talent to the wealthy or the still gainfully employed.

Self-reliance is as elusive as employment during a recession.

Cut to the chase. If we were to strike every law on the books, every government so-called handout, and started over, it wouldn't be long that the laws we have today would be back and the so-called handouts would be being considered.

The supply we know as government meets the damand of a very complicated society, that demand coming, for the most part, from non-feigning needs, and the supply meted out by hardworking, conscientious federal workers, including the congress.

Those we have elected this night are about to find out that meeting the needs of their constituents is not as easy as vote-getting criticism of the wrong-headed incompetence of their congressional predecessors.

Promises made to return us to the days of Ralph Waldo Emerson can not be kept.