Personal - #510 - #62 - Do you look to Government to solve all your problems?

Can the Government protect us from our own Ignorance?…..from the bad guys,,,, from our own discomfort…. from our own choices for education, diet, economic alternatives, happiness, success, etc…. I don’t think so!!

Well, what can our Government do?....
It can pass laws and regulations that satisfy the latest extreme public frauds, subject to the scrutiny of Constitutional and political and governmental pundits. Where do the excesses come from? The ecxcesses come from the public exercise of the Media. The louder the squawk, the more attention is paid. The public has “some” input, but until the Media picks it up….nothing! Included in the Media are governmental “oversee committees” that are televised and the political pundits that are covered in the Media.

What “CAN’T” the Government do….

It can’t protect us from our own ignorance…. ignorance due to the lack of interest and motivation in Public affairs. We assume that the facts come from T.V. and the media and never compare what people say or what the internet says or what we state are “the facts”….. More than half the time, we have “assumed the facts” and never check them through asking others. We are basically giving our opinions based on the “assumed” facts. How about giving your best “observations” when asked, and, not be so anxious to give “our opinions”! This is a quest for “new information”. This is a “debate” not an “argument”!

It can’t protect us from all of the “bad guys”…. Yes! There are bad people amongst us! People who want to do us harm…that want what we have just by taking it….If we try to “get in the way”, they’ll take our lives! “All” the bad people? Hardly! It would take an army of police which the public couldn’t stand for. The cost would be prohibitive. Besides who wants to live in a “police state”?

It can’t protect us from our own “discomfort”….. However our “discomfort” comes, no government can protect us from all of it. Prior to the modern age, our children were left “unprotected” from life. They were left to their own devices for the better part of the day. Today they are bussed to soccer practice, bussed to their recitals bussed to the ball games… protected all the time, or left to an “unsavory” neighborhood where “the bad people” inhabit. Obviously you can’t abolish every “bad neighborhood” nor can you expect parents to let their children go half the time. But something has changed! Parents do not handle things the way they were. Our children seem protected all the time or they’re let “loose”. There are no easy constraints. Kids seem to restrain themselves, at least for a time. There doesn’t seem to be any consequences…. no mild deterrents for misbehaving in society…. All people are taught to rely on the “government”!

It can’t protect us from “bad choices” in “education”, diet, alternative thinking, happiness, success, etc. The government does its best as a human run resource. It simply can’t protect us from “everything”!