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I think Reagan was unpatriotic when he said "Government is the problem"
Why do Americans bad mouth their government so much. It’s not like we’re in North Korea.
Like any organization, continuous improvement is necessary. However, to always say it sucks just creates a self-fulfilling prophecy that it will always suck.
May 1, 2010 at 1:40 am
I didn’t write this , but paste it here for your entertainment as I thought it very clever …from someone called Universalguy
I am a conservative.
This morning I was awoken by my alarm clock powered by electricity generated by the public power monopoly regulated by the U.S. Department of Energy.
I then took a shower in the clean water provided by a municipal water utility.
After that, I turned on the TV to one of the FCC-regulated channels to see what the National Weather Service of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration determined the weather was going to be like, using satellites designed, built, and launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
I watched this while eating my breakfast of U.S. Department of Agriculture-inspected food and taking the drugs which have been determined as safe by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
At the appropriate time, as regulated by the U.S. Congress and kept accurate by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the U.S. Naval Observatory, I get into my National Highway Traffic Safety Administration-approved automobile and set out to work on the roads build by the local, state, and federal Departments of Transportation, possibly stopping to purchase additional fuel of a quality level
determined by the Environmental Protection Agency, using legal tender issued by the Federal Reserve Bank.
On the way out the door I deposit any mail I have to be sent out via the U.S. Postal Service and drop the kids off at the public school.
After spending another day not being maimed or killed at work thanks to the workplace regulations imposed by the Department of Labor and the Occupational Safety and Health administration, enjoying another two meals which again do not kill me because of the USDA, I drive my NHTSA car back home on the DOT roads, to my house which has not burned down in my absence because of the state and local building codes and Fire Marshal’s inspection, and which has not been plundered of all its
valuables thanks to the local police department.
And then I log on to the internet — which was developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration — and post on Freerepublic.com and Fox News forums about how SOCIALISM in medicine is BAD because the government can’t do anything right.
May 1, 2010 at 1:40 am
I agree. being patriotic means standing by your country, even if a black man is president.
May 1, 2010 at 1:40 am
I think Regan was right.
I am not going to support a president when he is trying to do things I disagree with.
May 1, 2010 at 1:40 am
After eight years of mismanagment by bush, you have to ask that question?
May 1, 2010 at 1:40 am
I have a LOT of faith in THIS administration .
May 1, 2010 at 1:40 am
In America, government is supposed to be "We the People."
Unfortunately, since Reagan we have more and more seen the emergence of representation that serves corporate interests over that of actual Americans. And this isn’t isolated to repub’s either, although they are obviously much more blatantly in the pockets of the wealthy. This is why we need to be working to fix the government, and get rid of these guys who don’t represent us. Some real Campaign Finance reform would be a step in the right direction.
it is kind of ironic that Reagan advised people not to trust the government, when he himself represented exactly what should not be trusted in government…. Seems that has become the main republican tactic. Blame and accuse everyone else of what they themselves are the worst at. Honesty problems? Accuse the opposition. Election integrity problems? Find a scapegoat and accuse the opposition. Morality problems? Find a scapegoat and accuse the opposition. Cronyism? Accuse the opposition…Being called out for racism? Accuse the opposition of it. Pathetic.
May 1, 2010 at 1:40 am
Americans only have poor faith in their government when the prez is from the opposite party as theirs.
May 1, 2010 at 1:40 am
Because it is always self-serving. That’s just nature. I’ll bet while we are struggling to keep the programs most needed by the public, their pet projects and pork barrels are still stuffed with funds.
May 1, 2010 at 1:40 am
Government is the problem, but it didnt take a speech from a Republican to let me know.
May 1, 2010 at 1:40 am
Because the constitution tried to put limitations on the government, but once corrupt people get in office they either try to change the constitution or just ignore it.
May 1, 2010 at 1:40 am
And just what has your government done for you ? Stolen thousands and thousands of your hard earned money and spent it on what ? Organizations such as ACORN, or the fraud of WELFARE, Social Security, the salt marsh mouse, turtle tunnels in Florida, Pelosi’s private jet, Obama’s Date Night. bailing out unions and banks and wall street, underwriting bad loans to bad credit risks, implementing the FED Reserve and the IRS. Yet you trust them . Your certifiable do you know that ?
May 1, 2010 at 1:40 am
When has government done anything right? Social security is heading into the toilet, Medicare/Medicaid need vast improvments, people mooch off the government via welfare without proof that they’re going to contribute to society. The government is flawed and Reagan was correct in saying that government was the problem. More government, more problems.
May 1, 2010 at 1:40 am
Government is the problem. How can our elected leaders expect Americans to stand united as one while the law makers fight and act like stupid children who call out their boss on national television.
Our government is wasteful, Americans are out of work, Americans are dying in Iraq where we had no business invading in the first place, Bin Laden is still on the loose and making videos, and our financial and housing industries crashed.
The last 12 months have been hard on most Americans. We’ve watched our home prices drop to nothing, we’ve watched financial companies tank, and we’ve watched our auto makers tank. Our government gave banks and companies like AIG billions of dollars because they were on the verge of failure, yet the government allowed the same leadership of the failing companies to remain in their positions and continue to give out bonuses.
So ya, it sucks. Americans have lost faith in our government but rightfully so! Until the government starts to actually act, and real jobs and not part time or temp jobs are created we won’t see faith for awhile.
May 1, 2010 at 1:40 am
Agree. "Government is the problem" may be the most harmful single public statement an American president has ever made. We the People created our government so that we could act together as a nation to effectively address our concerns. How can this be a problem, unless you have a problem with the idea of government by the people, of the people, and for the people?
It is BAD government which creates problems. When the people in control of government see government as their enemy, is it any surprise that you get bad government? Would you put Dracula in charge of the blood bank?
May 1, 2010 at 1:40 am
Because government hasn’t accomplished anything that would warrant people placing their faith and trust in it. Regan was 100% correct. While its true being negative will never produce good results from a government program, on that same note, something that is defective by design isn’t going to work by being positive either. Socialism or collectivism discourages personal responsibility and sets up the government as ones codependent or their mommy or daddy, and that’s not healthy. If you think this is untrue, I challenge you to be more observant of this current entitlement generation that expects the government to do everything for them today. God bless.
May 1, 2010 at 1:40 am
Americans expect too much of their government.
The purpose of government is to protect its citizens and their rights. Yet we continually demand more than the government was ever intended to provide–education, security and comfort in our old age, and now health care. None of these are mentioned in the Constitution. None of them are even implied, nor is it stated that the government has any responsibility for them. Yet we demand them anyway, and then blame the government when it fails at what we should never have expected it to do in the first place.
America’s government is set up to do a very good job of its original job description. But now we’re asking the security guard at the hotel to answer the phones, watch the kids while we’re swimming in the hotel pool or sunning on the beach, teach us how to scuba dive, and clean the bathroom while he’s at it. And we blame him when he can’t do it all.
May 1, 2010 at 1:40 am
They really don’t. Voter turnout tends to be high in places that are not happy with their government (provided the environment is secure. Afghans aren’t happy with their democracy, but going out to vote can be a life or death issue there, so turnout is lower).
Voter turnout in the US is around 50%, which indicates about half of the population could really care less what government does.
May 1, 2010 at 1:40 am
This country was founded by people who distrusted government, believed that it was, at best, a necessary evil, and at its worst an intolerable one. We have such little trust in our government because they keep demonstrating that they don’t deserve our trust. They keep trying to push forth their agenda of what they think we want without our consent.
May 1, 2010 at 1:40 am
September 11.2001 That’s Why