Is there a single thing that the U.S. government is doing that you agree with?
594205
I'm with you.  In my opinion, and I value my opinion very much, all polititians are a bunch of crooks.  They do not have our best interests at heart that's for sure.  I don't care what party they are.  I fear for my children.   Should not have to live this  way in our country.
1155700
Sometimes the government tells you what you want to hear. I don't even believe we (USA) are at war anymore but in occupation.
532140
Actually, the way it works is this:  Congress passes laws that give general, non-specific instructions to the federal agency (in the executive branch) that is supposed to enforce the rules and follow Congress's instructions.  The laws and the agency regulations are all in place, but the Bush administration has made almost no effort to see that the existing rules are actually enforced.  Mining companies face really small fines for major violations -- smaller than most speeding tickets you or I might get, but most mines have just ignored them and not paid them, and the Bush administration has allowed them to do this.  Congress did its job, but the executive branch has a very poor record on seeing that those laws are actually put into force.
331332
Let see, we can trust them to short-change the American public, we can trust them to use way more money than is needed and to spend it on useless stuff....\n\nNo seriously, I agree with you, I can not think of 1,2,3,4,or,5 things to trust the government on, we know you coat everything to make it smell or sound sweet, then turns out it was rotten all along, we know they seek to disperse benefits, or profits from here to others first, rather than the citizens here. I dont know, I dont think there is one good thing that we can trust the government on. But I bet you would have a much easier time thinking of what we cant trust them on or with.\n\nThank you
735279
Yes.  Because the US government is for America and besides, what the rest of the world thinks is inconsequential.\n\nAnd what do you mean by "just solutions"?
210997
I am glad that you said U.S. government because a majority of the people do not endorse what we are doing over there. We have stired a hornets nest with a stick. I only hope that nobody else gets stung. Even though I know that it is endless.
1112154
I would say that the current government is definitely not what the majority of American people want.  The American system is not looking much like a democracy these days.  I would say the people that do support the actions of the current administration are mostly those that are still eating up the propaganda that they are being fed by the monstrous corporate machine to which the administration caters.  The USA is almost certainly headed for deeper sh*t than it is already in because of Bush's policies.  The idea that destroying a country, and inflicting such massive suffering on its people is making the world and the US more secure is rediculous.  All you have to do to see this is ask yourself what you would want done in retaliation for your family being killed in a bomb dropped on your home by another country's military.  This administration's foreign policy is making more people angry at the US on a daily basis.
803463
There is none.  The U.S. has just managed to put into power a group of people whose entire political philosophy, and their entire platform, is NOTHING beyond "I hate George Bush!"\n\nThey have no exit strategy from Iraq.  They have no plans to save Social Security.  They have no plans to defend us against terrorism.  They have no idea how to run the government.  They have no concept of how business works.  They have no concept of what the Constitution or Bill of Rights mean. They have no plan for reducing size of the Federal government or bureaucracy.  They have no plan for reducing the Federal deficit except to raise our taxes, and then spend even more money.  They have no plan for improving Health Care except to socialize it.\n\nAnd we've managed to put into power a party that has, traditionally, stated that you, Mr. or Mrs. John Q. Public, are entirely too stupid to know how to run your own life, so just let them run everything for you.\n\nThe next few years ought to be especially perverted.
537909
This is not new.  Successive US governments have failed to acknowledge one of the most basic ethical rules of diplomacy - i.e. that a principle applies equally to all states.\n\nFor example, if you claim you believe in democracy, then that applies equally to French, US or Venezuelan democracy.  If you claim to believe that torture is wrong, then torture in a Pakistani or Iranian prison is no better or worse than torture in Guantanamo or Baghram, Afghanistan.  If you claim to believe in the rule of international law - oh, I forgot, the US doesn't.  The US has blocked the extradition to other countries of terrorists working for - or with links to - the CIA.\n\nSo this is quite normal for US governments.  Democracy is only really acceptable if other states elect who the US government favour.  International law applies to all countries - the US governement would say - as long as we agree with it.  And torture is OK for us because we have special reasons for doing it but we do not accept that anyone else might.\n\nIt is worthy of note that despite the shameful arrogant hypocrisies of successive US governements, all the most recent US Presidents have made a big noise about their 'Christian Faith' and claim to 'speak regularly with God'.  What exactly is it that sets Bush (just one example) apart from, say, the (current) Iranian 'supreme' leader, Ali Khamanei?  Both were 'democratically elected', both are religious bigots who still live in the 14th Century, both literally believe in prehistoric works of fiction on the basis of no empirical or provable evidence, and both wield huge power over the lives - and deaths - of the world's population.  Isn't it time we grew up and recognised these as people who belong on the margins of our society and not at its centre?
1061372
No:  It is not an issue of whether we agree with his policies or not.  Our Constitution works as it is and as the founding fathers intended.
1016844
Mission Impossible:  HONESTY AND TRUE REPRESENTATION PLEASE.  As far as issues goes, lets see if the pres. can have the balls to say YES there really is GLOBAL WARMING!!  Not necessarily do anything about it but at least acknowledge it does exist would be nice.
454589
In the first instance the State Department would like to utterly refute any suggestion of government involvement.  \nThere is not, nor was at any time, any interference by any except the appropriate agencies, as sanctioned by law. \n\nWe would also like to take this opportunity to reassure all those who may be concerned,  that any and all legitimate factors did indeed contribute to this situation, whilst acknowledging that non-contributory factors had no part to play whatsoever.  \n\nWe have nothing further to say at this time.  Thank you.
998360
This is actually a problem that has been going on across Latin America (Mexico, Nicauragua, Honduras, Peru, etc) for a very long time, and the reason the USA never seems to do anything is because as each of these nations changes its government from pro-US to anti-US to pro-US again, changes our official response to the action. When the government doesn't like us, this is the crime of the millenium, but when it goes back to liking us we tend to forget about it (Nicauragua, as an example). It doesn't seem to matter who is in charge of these countries, the indigenous people always seem to get the short end of everything.
233495
I am with you all the way. One of my favorite jokes is "how can you tell if a politician is lying...Watch his lips move" The government can pretty much do as they want but let a normal American citizen try some of that stuff and watch what happens. We have no privacy and Democracy is a joke anymore...
972011
No...only an idiot would! Sorry, idiots...\n\nI think an even better question, one that gets right to the heart of the matter, as it were, is this:\n\nDOES THE U.S. GOVERNMENT TRUST YOU?
824154
It does.Sort of like what the bush administration is trying to do.
544944
the question is why is it that the US can do anything while the others need to have their permission beforehand...