For the people???

I've only got a moment to spend here, but I wanted to ask a question. What ever happened to a government "for the people"? I hope I don't get arrested for asking that question, I don't think we've gotten to a tyrannical level yet, but what's happened? 

Initially Americans enjoyed a government focused on them, giving them what they wanted, which was liberty. They didn't want handouts or huge government expenses. On the other hand we have seen dictators rise up (Napoleon, Hitler, Mussolini, Caesar, etc...) and take a country forcibly in a direction its people didn't want. I think we're in between these two scenarios. On the one hand we still vote, we still have a voice in who's in charge. No one is in control of us. But on the other hand our government no longer seems to give a whit of thought to us. They want to shove programs and throw soon-to-be-inflated money at our faces so we'll shut up and let them do what they want. 

The main reason I'm flustered is the bailouts and large expenditures of money in recent weeks and months. Who on earth is authorizing this massive outpouring of spending? Rumor has it something like 5 trillion dollars in spending has been dished out to various companies that are "too big to fail". That is a ridiculous sum of money to be loaning out, and from what stock pile? It seems like every day, or more like every night, when we're nicely snuggled up at home, staying away from radios and the news, another massive sum of money is spent. Even if this were necessary, which I find hard to believe seeing how no satisfactory explanation has been put forward for the spending, we deserve that explanation and a full accounting of where our money has gone and how we're going to get it back. 

We need a new breed of leader in Washington, a founding father breed, that will lead this country again for the people, not for themselves.

-Jaron