If We can't stop it because it's illegal, then how about because the Gov't may go broke?

Group Sues AT&T Over Alleged Surveillance

A civil liberties group sued AT&T Inc. on Tuesday for its alleged role in helping the National Security Agency spy on the phone calls and other communications of U.S. citizens without warrants.

The class-action lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, seeks to stop the surveillance program that started shortly after the 2001 terrorist attacks. It also seeks billions of dollars in damages.

http://my.ev1.net/english/news/newsarticle.asp?articleID=50135460&subject=technology

About cutting the bloat our of government....

Here's a lovely little numbers crunching about the past five SotUAs....and where the promises of less spending went.

http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=020106F