Comments on: Scary: 34% Of Americans Don’t Think It’s Possible To Live Without Government Help

By: Will

Will — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

“the moral mission of government is simple: no one can earn a living in America or live an American life without protection and empowerment by the government.”

“Essentially, it means that none of us is responsible for our own success.”

I don’t see the connection. To me, the first statement is saying that without the government, we wouldn’t be able to live our lives as they are right now, to make a living. That is a very far cry from not being responsible for our own success. Protection and empowerment by the government does not mean the government lives our lives for us. It means that they allow us to live our lives as we choose, by providing the things we depend on every day: roads, police, fire department, etc.

Without government, we couldn’t live our lives, and I agree 100% with that statement.

By: Chief RZ

Chief RZ — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Without interdependence? We did this back when the pioneers went west. We did this when the pilgrims landed. We did this during the depression. We the people can work.

Many who make their living off others refuse to work and rely on others to give them a living. This survey reveals that people who identify themselves as Republicans are mostly those who are not afraid to work while those who identify themselves as Democrats are the ones who want others to give them a living.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

There are legitamate things for government to do: the roads, the borders, the military, but to try to keep all pain away from the people, will just hemorrhage all of our money until we are a third world country (or even fourth) – at least we won’t have people trying to sneak in anymore. see gowwow.com

By: Blanco

Blanco — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Really?? If any thing, I’m shocked by how low the number is. We could not sustain our way of life with out the government. Please people, go look at third world countries where the government does not give a damn about its ppl or simply doesn’t have the resources to help. Our large protective government is one of the greatest things we have. It is made that way because of the oversight our founding fathers gave us through free speech and voting. We all hate paying our taxes, but next time you do, just imagine if our government collapsed tommorow; chaos? lawlessness? Eventually totalarism?

By: 2Hotel9

2Hotel9 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Government does not create jobs, or educate anyone, or start any kind of business. Government is killing all three of these things.

By: docdave

docdave — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Government assistance is like a contagious desease or a addictive drug. One you get it, it’s hard to get rid of.

By: robert108

robert108 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

There is no such thing as a free market. False; in economic terms, "free market" refers to freedom of entry and exit, and does not require perfection; humans are imperfect, and the free market is how humans behave in the absence of govt coercion. All markets are built on a substrate of government. False; humans display market behavior in the absence of govt. The reality is that govt is dependent on the private sector, not the other way around.

Jason: The amount of wasteful social spending(not the spending for the truly needy and disabled) is immense; it's probably on the order of 50% of all govt spending.

By: 2Hotel9

2Hotel9 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

“It’s asinine to believe that anything more than a fraction of a percent of your taxes go to support welfare recipients and the disabled. You wouldn’t notice the difference if we were gone.
Jason on March 9, 2009 at 02:02 am”

Really? Then go away, and good riddance.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Obama may not be burying Reaganomics, but he’s trying, using the rubble from digging up the Roman fall – Tax the rich to death and pour the money over the welfare class until the empire couldn’t even protect itself from illegal immegrants sneeking across the border — hmm-Both major parties are guilty of this. see gowwow.com

By: Systemic Angel

Systemic Angel — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Well isn’t the “War on Terror” the government taking care of us?
The fact is we are entirely dependent on the government. We exist in a system funded on debt. The income from our exports is only about 15 percent of our expenditures. Common sense would tell you that we’d go broke this way. Sadly, the deficit spending our government does (and, by necessity, the borrowing from other nations and printing excess money) is the only thing keeping us functioning. We seem to be unable to help ourselves by buying American goods and acting in our own best interests, so the government is forced to clean up our mess. So, yes, I’d have to agree with that statement.