Why do people want so much from our government?

Question

"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have."
-Thomas Jefferson

Answer 1

It's easier and quicker to ask for handouts than get off one's lazy a$$ and work for your life!

Answer 2

A system of government that recognizes the individual rights of its citizen and grants those citizens the right to have a say in how that government operates is, unfortunately, living on borrowed time. The citizens of this country have access, via their vote, to the treasury of the nation. They can vote for whichever candidate is going to give them the most access to that treasury. There is a strong entitlement mentality at work here. Those who do not have much will use their vote to enlist the government to take from those that do have much and redistribute that wealth. Citizens that have been successful in life and are wealthy are forced into giving a portion of that wealth to the government. Therefore, those folks also want something back and feel that they deserve it as well.
People on welfare should not be given a vote in this country. They do not pay taxes and are recipients of that re-distribution of wealth. It does not make any sense to give a person a say in how this country is run when they do not contribute. No poor person ever gave someone a job nor do we hand the checkbook over to our teenage children and let them decide on how the familys earnings will be spent.
Let's keep in mind... we do not have the right to vote in our national elections. That is a privledge granted by the individual states.
Welfare recipients aren't the only ones that should be excluded from voting.
We should also not allow people who don't understand how this republic works to vote. If you can't name your congressman, senators, or how the different branches of government operate, you should not be voting.
If you are looking for proof what a bad idea it is to allow universal suffrage, look no further than American Idol. I need only to mention the name Sanjaya. That's what sort of "talent" you get when everyone gets a vote.
Great quote, by the way. Ol' T.J. and the rest of the Dads are probably turning over in their graves at what we have let this country become. When I say "we", I don't mean politicians. I mean all of us sheep out here, too dumb and too complacent to do anything about how the farm is being run.

Answer 3

that was thomas jefferson he wanted a small small small national government, but today people expect everything from our government and they fail to realize how good we have it here in America. You can not name a better place to live or a better type of government in the world but instead people here just complain. Ever since FDR changed the shape of the federal goverenment people expect almost everything from our national government when in reality they are not the ones to look to everytime you have a problem, i love our system of government and i wish people would stop asking for so much and realize all that they do have.

Answer 4

There are some people in this country that think for whatever reason they are entitled to receive certain things from the government. I like your Jefferson quote, it is very true. A government that can sustain your life can also take it away.

Answer 5

Do they really? I don't think so; to me this is just another strawman.

Your quote is cute, but not applicable to modern times. A government that provides only defense is surely big ennough to take away everything a person has. And what good is such a government if it cannot or will not help its own citizens when a storm or natural disaster takes away everything they have.

Answer 6

Very perceptive question.

In a libertarian state, inhabited by self-responsible adults operating under scientist-drawn regulations of how to define categories of thought, how to claim, rights, how to interact with doing crimes, freedom of choice--life-making liberty and prioritized pursuit of one's selfish happiness among others is not a problem/

We have none of these constitutional safeguards in place in the United States. We are electing an imperial president and totalitarian (public-interest serving ) postmodernist tsars who fail at everything because what they are ding is based on false ideas, illegal bureaucracies and false assumptions.

So the question is;
Why do people go on voting for the lesser ot two categorical evils as parties?"
Ad the answer is;

Ignoring the totalitarian qualities of public--interest elected tyrants, they appear to be voting for that party's adherents who seems to promise them more privileges, handouts, etc for their interest group--unless panicked by fear, they vote for the one who falsely promises safety, which that party's hacks cannot deliver anyway.

The voters in such a system may call this "realism"; it's pragmatism--impractical ignoring of reality to keep a failed status quo of order-givers and rightless order-obeyers going the way it was.

Answer 7

Whatever you do don't make sure all children have health care or eat on a regular basis but the cons have given us a trillion dollar deficit with no services provided....not even able to win a war.

Answer 8

People everywhere are encouraged by law, media and schools to allow themselves to be victims and to let "Big Brother" to do for them.
It is time to take a new look at "1984".

Answer 9

People think they are entitled to so much more than they get, but don't want to pay the price of it. We pay the fewest taxes in the world and do get alot of services from the goverment, but not as much as others that pay higher taxes.

Answer 10

Must be the rights of original descendant too in planet of apes.

Answer 11

Damn, that Tommy Jefferson was a smart guy.

Why do liberals like big government? Because they are Communists.