Government for all the people We are all a part of a community and what we do affects that community just as what others do affects us. Government is how we interact with our community. A family council or the United Nations both our acts of community action and government. We can not do anything alone but together everything is possible. The true purpose of government is to to help us to achieve what is possible. To help everyone get what they need to develop their own unique gifts. What do we need? Food, shelter, health care, education, and purpose. Government must focus on the common good, not what is best for one group or another. If one person is in need then the whole group is in need and if one person has a problem it is a problem for all. We can each see how problems half a world away affect our lives as well as how we affect the lives of all around us. We and our government has for too long focused on ourselves and our problems at the cost of our community. We need to stop thinking about what is good for us and start thinking just about what is good. The only winning situation is one that everyone wins. The greatest treasure in this world is a human life for each one has the potential of creating something that will change the world forever. When we fail to help them develop their potential we rob ourselves and our future of what it could be. We must learn to work for the common good. Only the common good is the greatest good This treasure can begin to be utilized by enacting a minimum standard of living for all citizens. No person in our country should go without food, shelter health care or access to education. We can not afford to let them. The cost will be every citizen’s obligation to perform a period of public service and anyone could become a citizen by also serving a period of public service. There is no lack of work to be done and no lack of people that have or can acquire the skills to do that work. The only thing that is missing is the organization to bring what is needed together. A public works commission could both identify the work that needs to be done, allocate the people that need to do it and arrange the support they would need to do it in the most efficient and effective way possible.
Welcome to the site. I disagree with your conception of government. I view it's purpose as to provide minimal, basic law and order for the local community. No bigger than a town. No murder, no rape, no theft, and a small consumption tax to provide for such prosecutions and law enforcement.
Let's look at a hypothetical: I conceive of a worthy project. Let's say a food bank. So I go around my neighborhood asking for donations to the food bank. Neighbor after neighbor happily donates food. I reach one neighbor however who declines. He says he would prefer to do something else for charity. So let's say I go back to all the neighbors who like my food bank idea and we all pick up clubs and head on over to the recalcitrant neighbor's house. We tell him to donate food, or else. Do you consider this to be ethical behavior?
If you don't want overly burdensome govt you want no govt? Does that mean wants any govt wants Venezualas?
