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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (412118)9/1/2008 6:30:24 AM
From: Road Walker  Read Replies (1) of 1574098
 
Government is there to serve the people. People do not serve the government.

Can't argue with that.

When you say that our government is what makes us great, that's when you take credit out of the hands of hard-working Americans, with their highly diverse, individual energies coming together toward some shared values. That's when you place the credit in the hands of bureaucrats who not only act like they know better than the people themselves, but use the force of law to back up their arrogance.

Bureaucrats are people too, implementing the shared objectives of the people. Building and maintaining roads, street lights and stop lights, making sure the electric grid works, putting police and firefighters on the street, educating our children, doing 100,000 things everyday so citizens don't have to do them themselves. And so the people actually have time to use their "individual energies".

The government is the implementation of the collective will of the people. It's irrational to hate the government... it's hating the country.

Let me ask you this. How successful do you think you would be if we had really bad governments for an extended period of time? Ones that couldn't maintain and build on the infrastructure? Something like, say, the Iraqi government?
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