We americans are being fooled and are too poor to realise whats going on in our goverment... Obama Reads from a script ever notice? :D how he pauses?
Our goverment isn't bad the make you think that! 
Goverment wants one thing and one thing only: MONEY
Now you have shoved your head so far up your ass that the last few words were mumbled.
President Obama reads from a script, the he usually will edit or even write himself, (If it's important), because the human mind can't usually memorize a 30 minute long speech in the few hours between when he receives it and when he actually speaks it.
Secondly, the government want's money, wanna know why? Because our country's deficit, not the government's deficit, the country's deficit is over 3 trillion dollars.
Now if you want to argue that the reason we have such a huge deficit is the government's fault, just think about how strong we would be internationally without all those projects that the money was used for. So, to sum it all up, the government is not money hungry, and Obama reads from scripts because the human mind can't remember large amounts of information in short lengths of time.
