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The government is like wikipedia. Some people focus on all the things it gets wrong, but personally I'm amazed that it works at all. It makes glaring errors fr
by hugh 18y ago
The government is like wikipedia. Some people focus on all the things it gets wrong, but personally I'm amazed that it works at all.
It makes glaring errors from time to time, and plenty of things it does non-optimally, but the fact is that almost every day I get up and find that the garbage gets collected, the streets get swept, the electricity is coming through the wires, the police aren't demanding bribes, foreign countries aren't invading, mobs aren't rampaging, and the little pieces of paper in my wallet can still be reliably exchanged for physical goods. How awesome is that?
I believe in small government, and I don't think the government should do many things, but you can't say that the government is incapable of doing anything.
- hectorhector 18y agoi agree, as many problems as it may have today, one only has to look at some 3rd world countries to see how radically good governance can change things and how important it is. i'm not saying that just because we have it better than somwhere in africa or the middle east, we shouldn't complain or try to improve, but government, especially at the local levels, does a decent job.
- nazgulnarsil 18y agomost of what is associated with government, utilities, police, paved roads, schools etc. are all organized by the state government. I have no problem with state government, they are efficient (compare your state taxes to federal taxes, then compare what you get in return from each) in fact they should have a lot more power. federal power is the problem.