Let's talk about The Man

Think about it. The Government takes all of this money from hardworking people, some of it they put to good use, but a lot of it is wasted. It is spent unwisely or even flat out wasted. Our Government does many good things for it's people: it protects us, it provides aid for people who need it, it maintains order, and it provides for our retirement. But it doesn't do all of these things as well as it could, and some of the things that it does are unnecessary. Such as several forms of welfare and countless other bureaucratic agencies that do nothing but push paper around.

The most prominent of these money wasting agencies is the Social Security Administration, yes I realize that its important for Americans to have a retirement but the way the Social Security is handled is horrible. You will be lucky if you get the amount of money you put into the system back. If Americans put away all the money that they put into Social Security into a retirement fund we would all retire rich. But what happens? The Government wastes our money and gives us back almost nothing.

Welfare is something that is important but that is badly managed. Where I live a large portion of people live off of Welfare but they don't need it, they're just lazy. I don't know how this could be fixed only that it need to be.

Thomas Paine said in his pamphlet entitled Common Sense that "Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one: for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries [by a government], which we might expect in a country [without Government], our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer." and I would be inclined to agree. The Government should be a relatively small body that is strong enough to defend us when necessary but small enough that it isn't such a drain on our hard earned cash. The government should only be large enough to do it's job, and that's it. I agree that the New Deal was a good idea to get us out of the Great Depression it shouldn't have extended long after that.

"That government is best which governs least.”

-Thomas Paine