Hello America! DO YOU NEED GOVERNMENT?

Question

Do Americans need Government?

As in, do you need government to function properly.

Answer 1

Yes! Government is needed because there are people who will take advantage. Courts can adjudicate but they need laws to apply. There has to be a means of enforcing laws. We can therefor see a need in just this short a span that there needs to be 3 branches of government working separately but together.

In short bullies exist and the job of government is to protect the common man from them.

Answer 2

What I think we need is an electorate that actually tries to educate itself on what every candidate will actually do,not based on what he says this election cycle but based on his actual history. We also need an electorate that votes based on what is right for everyone rather than basing their entire world view on the supposed problems of their own little group. And I sometimes think we also need a clean sweep legislatively,take all the convoluted tax codes and laws and amendments written into law since the bill of rights a revisit the entire thing,start from scratch. Then maybe we could remove all the crap that is in direct violation of the original intent of the Constitution,like current monetary policy or the 20,000+ unconstitutional gun laws currently on the books. Just a thought.

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Answer 3

At this point in time, I think, really, that it would be in our best interest to disband much of our government. This is due to the clogged arteries of our legal system. we really do not NEED any new laws at all! In fact, we need to repeal a great many laws that we have on the books. And there is a very definite need to put the brakes on, once and for ALL TIME, all of the judges who write law with their inane decisions, based on their desire to further a political worldview, instead of following the LAW!
The few things that, maybe, SHOULD be outlawed, will never be, because it is the liars and criminals in all levels of government that have built immunities and a framework for their own elitist activities that are doing the greatest damage to our country. They will, of course, NEVER take themselves to task!

Answer 4

We in the UK are taxed very heavy on our income on the products we buy, on the water we drink on the heating and lighting we use. Petrol/gas is getting more expensive by the day. Food is getting more expensive by the week. That's how life is set up as you say born to do certain tasks I do feel though some things are going up out of greed to make more money not because it as to! I suppose the only thing we can rely on in the UK is the NHS go on the waiting list for treatment and wait for ever

Answer 5

There's too many of us to just let every body run amok, that would be a disaster. *Someone* has to help keep things sorted out. Yes we need a government. But we don't need *overgoverning* which I think we have a problem with at the moment. I do think that our government is overgrown, out of hand, and needs to be looked at, that we need to find a better way to hold these guys accountable for what they are doing on Capitol Hill. I do believe that voting is one way to do that, but not sufficiently effective by itself. Some of the rules need to be changed, in order to cut down on some of the crazy stuff these guys are doing over there. I don't know how we go about doing that, though, when they're the guys who are voting on the rules in the first place, and private interests with deep pockets are able to go in there and be heard more easily, not sure how we should go about about making them more accountable to U.S. I do think that the federal government's job should be about *general* guidelines for things that apply to *all* of U.S. but if some senator or representative has a pet project pertaining to his home state, that should be handled on the state level, I don't think that sort of stuff has any appropriate place on the federal level, when all of U.S. are paying for some program or another to benefit one rep's constituents (or one rep's buddies) over the rest of U.S. I think also that thier approach to making a law needs to be changed. 1 law / bill per vote. It really bothers me that someone can piggy back a pork cause on to a popular cause in order to push it through, when it wouldn't pass on it's own. If it can't pass on it's own merit, it shouldn't be on the table in the first place. That sort of thing really needs to be done away with. I don't know how that came about in the first place. If thier procedures were put up to a vote where we were making the decisions what they are allowed to do and how they are allowed to do it, things would be run a bit differently. The electoral college needs to go too, there is too much manipulation of the districts by the parties trying to affect the outcome of the presidential elections, and we wind up feeling ripped off, and like our votes are worthless when the popular vote doesn't match up to how the electoral college works out. But yeah, we need a government of some kind, just not such a big one as we have, and some of the stuff they do should be delegated to the state level. It's a crappy job, but someone's gotta do it!

Answer 6

Of course we need a government!! Who else is going to fill the pot holes!!?? Oh you mean those jokers in D.C.?? It's a secret we keep in America but those people (politicians in D.C. and those who report on them) are where we send the rich peoples kids to play grown up. When we (Americans) grow tired of their antics we usually humiliate them.

Answer 7

Due to the corruption and immorality of people, it is an unfortunate reality. However, there are still a few places where people can be responsible for them selves

Answer 8

yes we have one, but it needs to start functioning how it was first designed which is of the people, by the people, and for the people

Answer 9

No.
Mike - HAHA! The government IS the bully.

Answer 10

No thanks, our current Government is supposed to all about us and not politicians. The voters in our country want that but are too lazy to work for it.