What should the US Government provide?

Question

Pay attention to these details:

1. State where you are on a 1 to 10 scale, 1 being very conservative and 10 being very liberal.

2. Simply list each thing the government should provide every US citizen. (eg. health care, retirement, education, protection)

3. Simply list things the government should not provide us.

Thank you!

Answer 1

7- Oklahoma City
1. Impeachment Powers.
2. National health care, hey it works in Canada.
3. A balanced government
4. No longer can no-bid contracts be given to politicans companies.
5. No longer can anyone gain profit from war
6. Social Security, where has it gone and why do I still pay for it.
7. Balanced Budget, if Clinton got it done then why can't the almighty Bush?

Answer 2

1. A very firm 1!

2. The Federal Government should provide for the national defense and should regulate Interstate Commerce. Every thing beyond that is beyond the purview of the Constitution. The failure to limit federal control has placed this nation beyond a democracy into being a poliarchy and more closely, a hegemony.

3. Other than the afore mentioned items the remaining entitlements and total scope of government is at the pleasure of the individual states of the Union.

Answer 3

I'll play. Indiana 2or3

The government should provide national defense included armed forces and intelligence, a plan for retirement, but not the current system, a safety network for the uninsurable, but not the current medicare, and of course, federal judaical and legislative and executive branches with some tweaks. Certain levels of commerce control, but that's a very complicated issue Law enforcement should be local and state as it exists. Interstate roads, but with the possibility of maintenance for private companies.

They shouldn't provide heath care for the insurable. The wealthy from Canada come to the US for better heathcare. Retirement saving should be privatized, but mandatory. Education should largely be private or at least provide vouchers.

Check the Constitution, there are other things I'm sure. Hard to think of everything off the top of my head.

Answer 4

The government should not provide anything to anybody, except education and protection. We should be thankful for what they do provide us, think logically on this one.

Retirement--you should be saving for this the minute you start working out of high school and college.

Health Care--you should work in order to get health care coverage, if you dont work, you dont get health care. Health care should be provided by an employer, not the government. As far as health care for say the homeless and underpriveledged, it might be mean but they need to start working, get off the drugs, stop using the system, if they get sick and die, sad to say it but the world is only better without people who use and abuse the system.

While you are on the subject, the government should only offer very limited salaries to congressmen, senators and the president, etc.

They should stop giving handouts, and maybe we can get out of the red. Stop helping other countries stop helping people who use and abuse the services.

Just my thoughts, and I'll let you decide what side of the wall im on.

Answer 5

1. New York - 10

2. Health Care, Protection (against invading armies), education, retirement, and a limited time income assistances (6-8 weeks or whatever).

3. Funding to any religious organization!!! Serparte Church and State!

Answer 6

1. 4
2. BETTER law enforcement, not more mediocre law enforcement. Like, honest, ethical, hard-working, that whole business. Lower taxes, anti-trust enforcement,
self-policing of public offices. Border security.
3. Handouts, a list of government programs that wraps around the desk and out the door and down the hall and out into the street and...you get the idea. No one ever promised you a rose garden with your birth certificiate, so stop asking.
Bureaucracy. See above.

Answer 7

3-4 on your scale, but more libertarian & strict constructionist on the constitution...

Only that specified in the const:
1. Defense against all enemies foriegn & domestic
2. Border & customs enforcement
3. Regulation of interstate commerce - mostly meaning the Uniform Commercial Code
4. Common welfare - not meaning social welfare, but ensuring law functions for the benefit of society rather than the protection of individual rights being taken so far as to restrict the rights of society.
5. Uniform voter & equal protection of the law.
6. Taxes reduced to the minimum necessary to provide these basic services & no more.

As you progress closer to the local level, your indiv vote counts for more in selecting officials, so you have more consent in what rights you've handed over to them, therefor they are more powerful. States should provide:
1. compulsory public education on a college prep tract, curriculm, etc. State college system leading to competititive job placement & providing manpower resources needed inteh state.
2. Regulation of work conditions/safety, insurance, fire safety, law enforcement, fish & wildlife, natural resources, water rights, etc
3. most everything else.
Local should control execution/admister state programs at teh local level.

SHOULD NOT PROVIDE:
1. Social programs. While charity is good, at a certain point it becomes the same as giving money to a drug addict. America is built on the American-Spirit, which is a self reliance in picking yourself up & creating success where none existed with no safety net. We have problems with too many illegals here working for slave wages because there are jobs for them to take. That situation would not exist if American poor took those jobs & we competed on a level playing field against foreign workers. When you can ship raw materials from the US to China, manufacture the goods, and then ship them back here for sale & still seel cheaper than goods made across teh street at American wage rates, it means your wages are held falsely & dramatically high, & that jobs will continue to move overseas until a natural balance occurs.
2. Retirement: social security was created as a social welfare program for starving old people, not as retirement for those that could afford it. It has lessened reliance on & connection to family. It won't be there by the time I retire anyway, so it should be abolished over time.
3. Medical care: They should support hospitals, and regulate the insurance & drug industries, but paying for care should be a function of private insurance, which if properly regulated along with out of control costs would be reasonable. Medical costs are currently so high because drug R&D costs must be passed down. This could be lessened by more govt grant funding of private R&D. The main reason though is price fixing in foreign countries. Canada for instance sets a price for a US drug which is below what it must charge to break even on the research, so they must dramatically increase the cost of teh same pill sold in the US to balance the equation.

Answer 8

A concrete cell about 8 foot by 12 foot to put traitors in. You see I believe that I can provide all my needs given the opportunity; of course the feds need to protect us from foreign intervention basic law enforcement highways and criminal justice. I think the feds should spend way more time and money keeping track of internal threats; such as people who come to this site and others like it. This country will survive; we will weed out the traitors and lock them up. And I will support it by paying my taxes and voting Republican and telling all my friends to do the same.

Answer 9

Read the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. It is all spelled out in there. Nothing more. Nothing less. I am level 4 and strict constitutionalist.

Answer 10

1. moderate 5

2. boarder control, public education, law enforcement, utility infrastructure, decent roads, environmental protection, wildlife management, representation of the peoples will, true separation of church and state.

3. welfare, social security, health care, food stamps, any social services.