who is responsible for the actions of the united states government?
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The present Government!!!
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The president of the United States of America is George W. Bush.  You may call him President Bush.
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Executive Branch.  \n\nThe cabinet is part of the executive branch.
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The United States of America
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If the government fails to do the job of protecting the body politic then according to Jefferson we have the right and the responsibility to do something about it.\n\nWe are Americans, one of THE halmarks of Americans is that we are self-relient, we don't depend on government.  It is no different than a neighborhood watch looking out for your neighbors, when they spot criminals they call the police.
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It is the top priority of the U.S government.
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LEGISLATIVE (Congress)\nThey make the laws.\n"Nobody is safe as long as Congress in in session" -Will Rogers\n\nEXECUTIVE (President, Police)\nThey enforce the laws \n...whenever they're not too busy breaking them. \n\nJUDICIAL (Courts, Judges)\nThey judge ("Judge ye not") based on the law...\n...bribes...PMS/testosterone poisoning...
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They are part of the Treasury Dept. Most of the time they enforce Treasury Dept. laws. The protection of the President and others is also assigned to them.
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No, the United States does not have the responsibility to do this. However, I find it ironic that the United States often does, and very quickly, yet it took the U.S. over a week to bring water and supplies to the Hurricane Katrina victims who were U.S. citizens.
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Thomas Jefferson put it quite succinctly when he said "Government is a necessary evil". However, the important thing to do, is never allow your government to get out of control, such as ours has.
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This is an interesting question. The answer is that the US President has the power to declare war with the approval of congress.
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The States should definitely have more say in their own affairs. For the most part, they do, but the Feds always threaten to cut funding to the States that don't pass certain legislation. One recent example being the speed limit in Montana. Until this year, there was no speed limit in that State, but they caved in to the Feds to hold on to funding.\n\nThe Federal government should only exist to protect its citizens, act as our representative to the rest of the world, and help maintain national infrastructure. Everything else should be left to each State to provide.
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Who the hell voted for these people is what i want to know!!we are all guilty, we let our government do as it wants so we all have to take some blame,unless you stand up and be counted,and make your voices heard this kind of stuff will go on for ever.
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Assuming that you're speaking of government, there is an executive at the head of every geographic subdivision (i.e., country, state, county, city/town/borough).  In the U.S., these are the president, governors, and mayors or city managers.  they essentially manage a huge staff of people whose function it is to oversee the safety, health, education, and social welfare of the people who live in the "subdivision" (called "constituents") and execute all functions that keep these areas appropriately afloat.
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Assuming you are taking about the United States government...\n\nThe federal government derives its power from the states.  Any powers not granted to the federal government by the states (in the US Constitution) are reserved for the states.  The 10th amendment to the Constitution states "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."  That is why the US government is known as a government of enumerated powers- if the federal government wants to do something they have to find a way to justify that action in the Constitution (which they are pretty good at doing).
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Everything done by the US Government is protection of some capitalist interest or another. The Cold War, Iraq, The Gulf War, and the Bay of Pigs invasion are all examples of that. The people dont run the USA, the large corporations do.\n\n\npeace
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The government is run by the people, these days into the ground by liberals. Years ago the people trusted the government to run the country by the laws that were written. Now we look for a problem with whoever is President while letting Congress run amok. Laws are made by Congress not by the sitting President.