Do you think the govt is doing all it can to help you, protect you, and look out for your well being?  Or is it lip service and backroom dealings?
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F**ck that sh*t. No really, they do (LOL).  No I mean (LOL real L)they really have your best interests at heart...LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!\n\nHey!  LOL especially Bush! LOL.
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the government is supposed to be the channel to the people from their own country to represent their (the people) voices. and the government is supposesdly to guide the people, to unite them, to serve the people to bring out peace in the world.\n\nbut the government system has been deteriorated nowadays, and like you said, it has helped the rich to be more richer and somehow it tends to lose focus on the objectives of the government system itself. and the poorer gets oppressed now and then.\n\nno government is right in this world. we just have to deal with it and live our life by our own rules at the end of the day.
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I have nothing to hide. I understand the fears that some people have of a government with unlimited secret controls, but those are usually your conspiracy buffs, anyway.\n\nSpy, guys... spy. We are living in the greatest and strongest nation in the world, and many resent us for that. Sadly, the greatest harm to our way of life will come from within our own borders,
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Sorry for your problems, but that's what you get for expecting anything from socialist governments, and why it is better to provide for yourself rather than expecting it to be provided for you.\n\nBecause the government that has the power to provide you with all that you want, has the power to take all that you have.
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I do not agree with what our government is doing, but I believe that has a lot to do with the Bush administration. I've never been so disapointed int my own country before. Honestly, I am scared of our well being because of what they are doing.
399691
Government run agencies are not always willing to help the needy. People who know how to scam the system are usually the first ones helped. Private organizations help those who are trying to do things the right way. People helping people is a better way.
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I'M  WITH YOU.\n\nAll these security measures that have been implemented to give us  "security" will one day be used to regulate and control us.\n\nDear old Benjamin Franklin once said, "Those who would surrender freedom for security deserve neither."\n\nThink about it. If a government or people in the background that influence a government was/were afraid the people may one day get fed up with them and stage a revolt what measures would they put into effect to prevent that?\n\n1) control their ability to move around quickly.  \nAirport security, travel records of buses and trains.   ID's.   There was even talk of a (GASP) NATIONAL ID!\n\n2) track all large money deposits.\nRequire banks to report anything larger than $5,000.  It would take money to stage a rebellion so tracking it would warn the government who is moving money where. They just get a warrant to search your property and find the tools of a revolt and lock you  up before you can do anything to get rid of the abusive bastards.\n\n3) Squash them like a bug. \nUse the military act to lock up suspected terrorists with NO trial and they NEVER see a lawyer.\n\nDo you realize that with the passage of the most recent law, the government can designate anyone (you) as a terrorist and lock them up forever?\n\n4) Use issues that will divide the people.\nThat will prevent them from working too closely together.  Abortion, gay rights, health care, and now the Iraq mess. That should hit about 95% of the population shouldn't it? Get them fighting, arguing amongst themselves so they don't concentrate on what is really happening in the background....\n\n5) Use cameras.\nSo we can watch who goes where and catch anyone talking against the beloved people in power.\n\n6) Pretend we don't mind if they have guns to defend themselves, but slowly learn who has them so they can be collected one day.\n\nGee does any of that sound familiar?\nIn the last five years all of that has been put into place. More regulation than in the whole 200+ years since this country declared independence.\n\nAmericans are about to be subjugated and they are too complacent to know it.
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I think the Feds are out there to get you. Make sure you wear your tin foil hat. C ya.
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Did you use money? The government created and owns that.\nDo you walk on streets? Ditto.\nDo you expect police and fire protection?\nAs a citizen of a country you enter into a sort of social contract where you agree to laws and taxes and the government agrees to protect you and... whatever else.\nTaxes make the sort-of-a-social-contract work.\nIf you lived in a social vaccuum, where you existed apart from all and some total stranger wandered by and gave you something of value for your basket, you might be able to claim privacy from all gov't interaction.\nBut then you wouldn't be able to ask questions on Y! Answers.
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no. the problem is that all this "enforcement" costs money and time and we seem to want these things but then we get pissed when the govt tries to enforce them. Big govt is not good. We need to keep our selves safe. keep ourselves reponsible, and dammit, keep ourselves from dying from hurricanes ALL BY OURSELVES!
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The government makes contingency plans for lots of stuff. Almost and federal facility could be used to detain people. Here is a link you should get a chuckle from. Talk about paranoid.
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The goverment? they supply the drugs?
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You thought we had a good administration?????? O K. Only 70% of the population does not think so. Don't worry too much though, this is just window dressing. The same old same old will be taking place and you should remain happy.
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Sounds good on the surface, but there is far too much room for abuse of power, as if the government isn't already abusing its power, but I won't go on about the obvious.\n\nShort answer: No.
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Unless you are engaging in activity that could be construed as aiding and abetting terrorism, I think you are being overly paranoid.\n\nThe government is engaging in those activities, but it has more to do with data mining. The government has a program called Tempest that is capable of monitoring electronics within the nation, but it does not do so arbitarily. Tempest runs in the background. When certain key phrases come up (for instance, "I want to kill the President"), Tempest roars to life and signals agents that someone to watch out for has been identified.\n\nThe government does not just arbitrarily say, "I think I'm gonna listen in on Sam's conversation tonight and see what pops up." That is like finding a needle in a haystack.
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It is a form of government where you answer to the state, and the control over you is maintained bu themilitary, or secret police. Uou are under constant censorship, and the government  tightly controls  industry and finances.
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When could they ever control the people, law enforcement for the most part is just as corrupt as the government.  Now they are coming over here and trying to do the same thing.  They are destroying our benifits programs that we worked so hard to create.  They are bending laws and trying to take some of them out of effect or twisting them to their own advantage.  they must be stopped before it's too late.