TheRealMafoo said:
jv103 said:
9. The government works for me. I do not answer to them, they answer to me.
-Isn't this part of the problem? I imagine if everyone who could vote, did vote, government would be providing more services. Isn't this the argument that Government should provide entitlements?
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/03/05/poll-do-americans-want-government-health-care-reform/
I saw this on health care reform. I didn't actually see the methods and people interviewed in the poll, but it does seem like an indiccation that people actually want the "government to work for them"
Is this resistance an attempt at trying to make the minority (especially in the healthcare front) to appear as a majority? |
That's not what he means.
As an example, let's say you lived in a housing development with 20 homes, and every household spent one night out of 20 to police the area. You all got together one day and decided to hire a security guard to watch neighborhood for you, so you didn't have to do it. Each household pays 5% the cost.
Now one day the guard come to you all and says "I have noticed all crime in this neighborhood happens after 6:00 PM, so starting today, no one is allowed outside there homes from 6:00pm to 5:00am."
The guard has no authority to tell you what to do. He is just a guy you hired to provide a service for you all. The power still resided in the people who own the homes.
Government should be the same way. The only reason we have public servants, it to handle the tasks of running a country, so we all don't have to do it. The power should still reside in the people, not our employees (government workers).
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Couldn't have explained it any better. I just think that most people are so used to government being in their lives that they don't view it in the way you presented above.
