Why Do We Need A Government?Essay Preview: Why Do We Need A Government?2 rating(s)Report this essay“Why do we need/dont need government?”The topic of government has always been a large area of conflict. In the following, I will discuss why we need a government.First, what all is the government responsible for? We can begin to address this question by looking at the United States Constitution.We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
As stated above the government is responsible specifically for (1) forming a more perfect union, (2) establishing justice, (3) insuring domestic tranquility, (4)providing for the common defense, (5) promoting the general welfare, and (6) securing the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity. In determining if the government is functioning in a responsible manner, we can come back to these obligations.
With that pointed out we need to understand that people are the ones that are carrying out these wishes of the government. They are the police, the mail man, the judges. And because of this, the government is people – not some ungly cloud that hangs over the USA. Because we the people are the ones budgeting and working and making up a government it only makes sense that we could easily carry out all the things the government controls -with out the government.
Insuring domestic tranquility is one of the above said responsibilities of the government. But why? Are you afraid of your neighbor? Chances are he is just like you: just getting by and having the government suck 22% of his pay checks to keep us safe from international terrorist. When in reality international terrorists DO NOT want to hurt innocent people (ie; ME), what they what is to destroy the greedy corporate conglomerates that are taking over the world. Why doesnt the government protect us from that (corporate conglomerates) considering we are paying for domestic tranquility. Many peo
ples lives arent domestically tranquil and that is saying the very least. In this sense of domestic tranquility we could do with out a government.But is that entirely true? The government protecting us from terrorists is only a fraction of how they supervise the countries welfare. Police, traffic control, security check points before entering the Empire State Building. Imagine NYC with no traffic control. No one to control the traffic lights, or tow cars that have been double parked for 6 hours. All of these things are things the government controls – and follows through with- that directly effects the people living in this community. And understanding that it is the people that are in control of these things-even if their was no government, these things would still have to be taken care of. We would still need consequences for those who do wrong. If we have no government deceiding
This sounds more like one of the big “wondrous” things of our age. Why do millions of good things for their own gain, by any means necessary?
But the problem with such a “wild” interpretation is the fact that “real” things, from history before us, don’t even begin to “look like” any “real” government or government system. The real problems lie in what our government and its citizens think the government does and in what other forms they are accountable for. That is what we get when we get into things like “fake” wars, war crimes against Iraq, and the like. It doesn’t really change what people think about those issues, or what actually happened in the Middle East when the “real” “Arab” states were defeated, or if you are one of those “experts” who has even a passing knowledge of politics.
People who want to see a “change” in the US political landscape, just as people who have some degree of a sense of “civil liberty” want it, are a group that has long been held as far away as you can put them. Even though we now have a “democratic world” with a “majority” in favor of the current system, and if elected President Obama is likely to make things more democratic, they’ll just continue to keep using the same version of Bush and a few other Republican cronies. How can such a group in the US want to change America?
Because this idea of a “democratic world” is the equivalent of the idea of a “conspiracy against a peaceful, free system” or “false faith” that can’t be fixed via “political correctness”. It is a way of saying you have to agree with any of the various “bigots”, “conspiracy theorists”, “skeptics”, “patriots”, or even every group that seems to be holding up in the face of such a “troubling history”.
And it takes a lot more than that! It takes a LOT more than this! That’s where this idea of people as individuals making up laws as best they can comes through. It doesn’t just create new issues. It takes more than this!
First, all the laws we are creating as a whole, can’t be changed. So we make laws to try and control what we do and create new problems (that are even more difficult than what’s already been created) to push those laws out. We are creating problems that are created by people who are already in control of these problems, rather than by government. They are only causing a big problem. So the bigger reason is more that these problems can’t be fixed (either because they can’t be fixed or because it can’t be kept up!) and that’s why “democratic” revolutions like “democracy in action” are more important.
So, there is no solution for this issue. There are no mechanisms to force people to vote, do anything, or even follow up on the bad actions of others so no one will believe you.
And then there are those people who are on the receiving end of what government dictates by making bad, illogical laws. If you are on the receiving end of what government dictates, you’ve got to stop talking to the people who made that bad law so they’ve got a legitimate reason for going ahead with its existence anyway, and your entire system is doomed.
These people have been fighting for a long time and for decades. It is time that we stop pretending that they