Why should the Federal Government provide you with anything?

Question

Would you not prefer to keep most of your money and take care of yourself?

The Fed should provide in those areas where the states and the people cannot. We cannot provide for national defense, we can build our own roads thank you. We can provide for our children's education and do not need to Feds involved whatsoever. We can provide our own health care and insurance, it is not an area where we need Federal involvement.

Now if you argue against this, please keep in mind their are others that want something for nothing as well. I would like the Fed to supply me with latest in urban assault armaments, for free, so when socialism collapses our economy I can defend my family from the commie hoards coming to steal what we have saved.

In life you can be the ant or the grasshopper, I prefer to be the ant.

oops, forgot a key point.

The Fed has NO MONEY, they only STEAL if from those who work hard.

So it seems if you want the Fed to take from me to give to you, you are advocating stealing.

most of you people missed the fine point entirely, I am talking about the 10th Amendment, what is not specifically granted to the Federal government it is not their purview, get it, the states are being stiffed as are the citizens of those states by the Federal Nanny State, what happens today in the Fed is largely a violation of the 10th Amendment.

We have a runaway Congress today, grabbing money and Power in anyway they can, they have to stop.

http://www.civicsandpolitics.com/tenth.html

chatterus - you make some excellent points all the while ignoring which entity has the right to do so, the Fed, the states or the people, many of the items you mention should be handled by the states not the Fed.

Answer 1

Equality is an illusion!

Socialism’s aim is to create equality. Equality is an illusion! There will always be the haves and the have not. True our capitalist system leaves some without. However there is plenty of opportunity that’s what this country stands for since its birth. That is the essence of the American dream. OPPORTUNITY! What you do with it determines where you end up in society. The wealth you generate should always be yours to control. I believe capitalism creates wealth but also forces a man to be better. Socialism destroys opportunity, it makes us dependent. Dependence is the TRUE threat of freedom!

Bellum omnium contra omnes!

Let us work to make healthcare more affordable within the capitalist system that has created the incredible healthcare we see today. To change the foundation of our healthcare system you destroy it!

SOCIALISM WILL NEVER WORK!

Answer 2

Of course you are making the assumption that everyone who works hard makes that much money. I wish it were true. I have a few answers of why it is important for society to intervene to help the poor.

Why should the government provide education?
- If the government doesn't provide education for children our country will very quickly become a third world country. Most public education is very poor, but basic math and literacy is required for a society to operate well. A illiterate society works very poorly. That would be why even Saddam made sure every person in his country, enemy and friend could read, as well as provided free secondary education. He wanted a country with advanced sciences. In the late 1980s Iraq was on the verge of becoming a first world nation.

Why should the government help with secondary education?
- For the same reason China now has more engineers than the US. Those engineers will catapult that country forward in advancement. Every professor is betting that China will pass the US in development in the next 100 years because of our insistence of not encouraging this area. It is funny that people in this country don't realize that how important secondary education is to a society.

Why do we need assistance with health care?
- Very simple, there are many people who can't afford health care. It is not a something for nothing issue. An job that pays 20 thousand a year doesn't always provide insurance and if you need the insurance to cover something, then you probably can't physically work anymore than that.

For example I have a heart condition called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. I can work for eight hours a day doing fast pace physical labor as long as I lay down after every shift and do nothing harder than reading for a few hours. I don't have the energy to devote to night classes or job retraining that people like Bush push as the ultimate answer for everyone. A second job plus maintaining a home is difficult to impossible for me. If I attempt to do more, then I collapse.
This is embarrassing to me as I used to run two miles a day. Now just short of 4mph walking on a flat surface for a mile is the best I can accomplish.

I have insurance because family members help me when I fall short of funds. There are others that aren't so lucky.

Answer 3

the federal government waste greater money than the indoors maximum sector. I as quickly as labored for the federal government and that i observed lots waste and those that would desire to come to the development yet did no longer no longer something all day. i could no longer stand on account that loads of persons have been employed without them having any accountability I mean honestly 0 paintings to do. it relatively is a waste of the tax payers money. as quickly as you have been employed and are there for 3 years you won't be able to be fired. i ultimately provide up and went to paintings interior the indoors maximum sector the place human beings actual paintings for his or her pay. i might might desire to declare no on your question. the federal government is familiar with a thank you to spend money yet they do no longer understand a thank you to shop money. They spend all they have and greater. subsequently they do no longer understand a thank you to regulate money or the rustic. I accept as true with Mike Huckabee approximately term limits.

Answer 4

Social programs exist to help those who cannot help themselves for one reason or another.

Sure, there will always be slackers; there's no screen or filter fine enough for that. Deal with it.

And don't fantasize that all slackers are "liberal."

I don't have a problem sharing some of what I have with others. Neither should you.

What's this "We can provide our own health care" BS?

Nearly 47 million Americans, or 16 percent of the population, were without health insurance in 2005.

The number of uninsured rose 1.3 million between 2004 and 2005 and has increased by almost 7 million people since 2000.

THE LARGE MAJORITY OF THE UNINSURED ARE NATIVE OR NATURALIZED CITIZENS!!!

Over 8 in 10 uninsured people came from working families – almost 70 percent from families with one or more full-time workers and 11 percent from families with part-time workers !!!

The United States spends nearly $100 billion per year to provide uninsured residents with health services, often for preventable diseases or diseases that physicians could treat more efficiently with earlier diagnosis.

Hospitals provide about $34 billion worth of uncompensated care a year.

Another $37 billion is paid by private and public payers for health services for the uninsured and $26 billion is paid out-of-pocket by those who lack coverage.

MY POINT: We're already PAYING for it!

The United States is the only industrialized nation that does not guarantee access to health care as a right of citizenship. 28 industrialized nations have single payer universal health care systems.

Answer 5

They shouldn't actually. The American citizen is the money maker, the government are merely thieves. They make promises to hold OUR money, to keep it safe for us, but instead turn around and spend it, and then blame US, or another party for having taken it. All politicians are guilty of theft of the American taxpayer, regardless of party. As you know, the democrats created Social Security (FDR), and they are also responsible for having demolished it.
Regular citizens must budget their livelihoods everyday, and they do a good job. People need to be responsible for their own earnings, not give them to the government, who are wastrels, and also many of them take Social Security checks, when they are rich enough not to need them.
Aside for the need for a revolution, by the people of America, to the act of our government allowing illegals into our country, this issue of the American taxpayer's must be addressed. Our government is robbing US! In more ways than just Social Security!

Answer 6

I do not disagree with you. The Federal Government exists to protect me from you, you from me and us from the rest of the world and nothing else. Let the states and municipalities make up the balance of government that the feds have taken over. At least that way we can VOTE for our choices.

I emailed you. Check it out.

Answer 7

You are more conservative than I. I have no problem with federal funds for things we ALL benefit from.

Roads are something we all use. I don't mind public education, but we should have vouchers. I hate the idea of the government socializing my child. Yuck.

But this business of "leveling the playing field," and this business of paying for the choices of others? Smacks of total control, and I do not like it.

Answer 8

The Feds are only supposed to protect our country. I want nothing else from them.

Answer 9

It's impossible for people to "take care of themselves" completely. For example, I can't defend myself from foreign invaders. The only way to do that is join with everyone else to employ an army to do it. There are many more examples. What you're really asking is why is a government necessary. Well, think about it.

Answer 10

The government is not some foreign enemy to me; it is MY government, paid for with MY dollars, and staffed by representatives I vote for. So, in my mind, the "proper" role of government is whatever the hell I want the proper role of government to be. It is there to serve its people. It isn't providing anything for me. My fellow people, fellow humans (not just consumers and sellers) are helping me as I help them. The goverment is simply an organization we use to make it happen.
Is it perfect? By no means. But I would rather give my money to the government, where I have some control over how it is spent, then be ruled by corporations and what they sell me.
To me, goverment should provide universal healthcare. They should not pointlessly abridge freedom (I'm sure you agree there, although I'm sure you are all for abridgement of freedom when it comes to abortion and gay marriage). They should provide for the commons, as you mentioned. But they should do so much more, and so much less in terms of killing people abroad.
If you want to pocket some more of your cash, maybe we should get rid of this giant military-industiral complex, and actually have an army based on defense, rather than staffing bases all over the world and pissing people off.