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I've always thought that government was for...  

tickles4us 62M
1488 posts
3/11/2017 12:17 pm

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3/14/2017 10:58 am

I've always thought that government was for...


National defense, law and order and to see that the citizens were treated fairly and justly and not abused by local or federal government or individuals or corporations.

As government and the country grew it became involved in<b> education </font></b>and expansion of infrastructure as well as regulation, though the regulation always was way behind the abuse that brought about the need for the regulation, and of course the tax burden increased.

As things got more complex it became necessary for the government to get involved in things like labor laws, environmental protection, voter rights and protections, drug, food and medicine regulations and protections, regulations for the radio traffic and aviation industry. There are many departments in government to regulate various industries and individuals in one way or another. Of course the tax burden went up but so has the population and big business.

The list goes on and on because there is one thing that has been a common problem... You see all these are just extensions of a more detailed nature of the original premises of the constitution. To protect the people from others that seek to take unfair advantage of them or injure them in some way. Most abuse has been from industry, corporations and big business that are not concerned with the people but with profit often at any cost to the worker or the environment. Wall street has only added to the problem by increasing the pressure to raise the value of a companies stock, leading to all sorts of abuses like very inaccurate prospectus portfolios to outright lies and all sorts of corruption including paying for government officials votes or other influence. Who is it that actively lobby's and even pays to keep the minimum wage low?

Eventually the government got involved in the social programs to help see to it that people who have worked all their lives making wages that were never enough to save much would have a safety network to keep them from being without any income when they got too old to work or to keep a job. These social programs grew to include people who weren't able to provide for themselves due to illness or injury including job related illnesses and injuries and birth defects (some of which have been caused by industries etc.). Many social programs were created to help those that needed the help for any number of reasons in many areas of life. Some programs helped people get by when they needed it temporarily and some are long term care programs while some help people to get ahead in life through<b> education </font></b>to where they don't need help anymore unless of course they get ill or injured.

It seems the republican government that's in charge right now, wants to eliminate as much of the regulations and agencies that have been created over the years to protect the people from big business and set back citizen protections to the 1800's. Anybody who knows anything from history, knows that removing these regulations will only recreate all the problems that caused the creation of these regulations in the first place. What kind of sense does it make to say "for every new regulation two will have to be thrown out"? Sounds like the height of ignorance to me.

But that's not all. This same republican administration wants to cutback or eliminate many social programs. The recent release of the republican healthcare plan, lets just call it "Republicans Don't Care Health Plan" because nobody wants to have their name on it and well, it is blatantly obvious from the contents that they don't care, shows they have no concept of the right thing to do. What kind of people cut back on things like health insurance, food assistance programs, assistance with cost for a place to live and all the other program cuts the republicans are making just so they can give a tax break to the wealthy and increase the military budget for a military that is the most costly and most advanced one in the world as is. Despotic dictators do things like this. Greedy rich boys do things like this. Republicans apparently do things like this also.

For a quick look at the republican healthcare plans problems read this or some other article if you like.
washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2017/03/07/the-new-republican-health-care-plan-is-awe-inspiringly-awful/?utm_term=.9d2338b0f6e4

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sweet_VM 65F
81699 posts
3/12/2017 4:04 pm

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Nicely put Spunky hugsss V

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sweet_VM 65F
81699 posts
3/12/2017 4:04 pm

Glad I don't live in the States.. hugs V

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tickles4us replies on 3/13/2017 9:08 pm:
Can't say as I blame you.

wickedeasy 74F
32404 posts
3/12/2017 1:37 pm

and still no budget for this farcical plan.

I think we'll see it fails muster. it least this is my hope

You cannot conceive the many without the one.


tickles4us replies on 3/12/2017 2:45 pm:
I would hope it goes nowhere and they just leave things alone but I don't know if that will happen.

goodatpoetry2 74M
16552 posts
3/11/2017 1:26 pm

Every new idea they seem to want is going to have horrible consequences down the road, but they don't seem to concerned about the future. . They only seem interested in what's good for *them* right now.


tickles4us replies on 3/11/2017 1:32 pm:
Greedy little rich boys with no concern for the people or the future just making their campaign contributors happy.

greekphilosopher 61M
4077 posts
3/11/2017 12:40 pm

Seems like years ago, no one thought about people living for longer, and all of a sudden, promises made in the past can not be kept for all the programs you mention, that are now just eliminated one after the other, in many countries, to save money. Not money for schools or hospitals, but for more weapons and military advancement. Oh and that summer villa or gambling addiction, anything for coruption. I wonder, which advanced military will save humans from the lack of water, in the far future. BTW were you a revolution leader in any of your past lives?


tickles4us replies on 3/11/2017 1:09 pm:
It looks increasingly like the military's might be used more to secure resources by "whatever" means, then anything else. Of course the question becomes who gets access to those resources when things get tight. The powerful first, or the common citizens? I think we know the answer to that unless there is a revolution.

I can't remember my past lives.

tickles4us 62M
7262 posts
3/11/2017 12:18 pm

Republicans... patriotic...

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