The 'Great Wish Machine'

Has the US Government has become a Great Wish Machine?

Yup it has, as illustrated in the following quote from Eric Englund's The 'Great Wish Machine'

Unfortunately, this list goes on and on. Americans, quite disturbingly, have come to believe the great fiction (to paraphrase Frédéric Bastiat) that, via government, everyone can live safely and securely at the expense of everyone else

Read it for yourself, and see what you think.