> but I always thought that most people here in the western world held the view that the government exists to serve the people, not the other way around. Is thi

> but I always thought that most people here in the western world held the view that the government exists to serve the people, not the other way around. Is this not the case? You can say that it exists to serve people but then you have to say which people exactly :) Because I think the willingness of the government to serve people is directly proportional to the depth of the pockets of the people in question.