What is your feeling toward the US Government?

[QUOTE="Diablo-B"][QUOTE="BATTOSAI76"]

The fed needs to be as small as possible. Right now it's too big, and all it wants to do is get bigger.

BATTOSAI76

Shoot. My bad. I read your comment wrong.

My evidence stands that they want control. Drug and alcohol regulations, tax hikes, federal fire arms regulations, government regulated and required by law health care, government funded abortions and birth control (to control the population). Some of those exist and some have been lobbied for in congress. Not to mention their constant behind the sciences prodding of class warfare. Their strategy, get the poor angry at the rich so they fight to get politicians to get the rich to pay more taxes. Then get the poor to trust them by giving them services that are highly regulated by the government, thus controlling the lower class. The whole government is a racket. All they want is your money and support.

Government is force. It's neither good nor evil, it's just force but it's necessary to protect the rights of all Americans, mantain the defense of our nation, as well as respond to changing events. However, any government can have the potential to become tyrannical but our government is unlikely to do that since it's highly incompetent and comical.

The details, however, are complicated so I'll just leave it at that.

It needs abolishing, like all states.Rhazakna

In theory, all governments should have better transparency and accountability. Lots of nations have done things that their people were probably unaware of or didnt approve. But not sure how you make that work.

I feel disgust and disdain of the highest caliber.

Neutral, not indifferent.

Mostly good intentions, but it is certainly far from perfect, and yes it is very divided.

Mostly good intentions, but it is certainly far from perfect, and yes it is very divided.

TacticalDesire

Well there's worse govts out there.

The one we have now is a little overdone, too big, it's like they want a department to wipe our ass for our own safety (and charge tax for it!)

I'm not loyal to any govt, I'm loyal to the people.

I think govt should be small and irrelevant to most people's lives.

a mix of division and incredible stupidity and ignorance

More confusesd than Ryan Seacrest.

A lot has been going back and forth lately about the various laws and actions that the gov't has taken or is trying to take. We are very divided, left vs right, and people are very passionate, it seems, for their position. One issue at the forefront as of late is the 2nd amendment whish states:

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

This law can be interpreted many ways but today many gun advocates interpret it to mean that citizens have the right to own guns to fight against the US gov't. I personally interpret it to mean that citizens have the right to own guns in order to form militia to fight outside threats from other countries, not to rise up against our own democratically elected gov't. At the time considering the infancy of our country the federal army needed the support of local militia for national defense. However, both interpretations allows us to have firearms.

What I find fascinating is how many people believe that they have to have guns to fight the gov't. I can understand having firearms to protect yourself/family from criminals but from the gov't? Really? So I really would like to gather everyone's thoughts, is the gov't our natural enemy? Do you see the gov't as a separate entity or are we the gov't (of the people, by the people, for the people)?

Do you think the gov't is good, evil, stupid, or divided as a byproduct of how culturally divided/diverse our country is?

If you believe we need guns to defend against the gov't would you advocate using them on the military? Police officers? Politicians? (We recently saw a case like this where senatorGabrielle Giffords who had an attempt assassination and there have been many assassination in the past.)

Diablo-B

A bunch of pricks who think they're badasses.

random college students on facebook literally could form a better congress together.Hakumen21

lol

This made me chuckle.

My feeling is that there are not 536 people smart enough to figure out what is best for this country (even with all advisors) I think that the federal government's primary objective should be to protect people and thier right and leave more collective action things to state/local governments and private groups (education, healthcare, taking care of people in need, etc)

I believe that the US government is terribly inneficient and allows many unsustainable practices continue. The governement allows both businesses and people to take more out of the system than the put in, leading to a more disfunctional society.

RIver said it well.

'People don't like to be meddled with. We tell them what to do, what to think, don't run, don't walk. We're in their homes and in their heads and we haven't the right. We're meddlesome.'

The U.S. government has messed up various governments all over the world often resulting in many deaths for the populations of said countries.