the role of government

[brimic]

http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=227753

excellent article  that distills it down

[Blakenzy]

Government is to a country what a foreman and cattlehands are to a ranch.

[RevDisk]

I thought this was common knowledge. The government doesn't grant rights, your humanity does. We give up a number of them to the government for various reasons, and the rest are specifically denied from the government infringing upon.

[Hutch]

Government is to a country what a foreman and cattlehands are to a ranch.

A notion that is unfortunately widespread in our country.

[Scout26]

Government is to a country what a foreman and cattlehands are to a ranch.

So we the people are the cows?


 

[Tallpine]

So we the people are the cows?


 

Yep, branded and gelded 

[tokugawa]

The purpose of government?  -- to "harass us and eat out our substance".

[brimic]

The purpose of government?  -- to "harass us and eat out our substance".

That's what government always becomes, pavers made of good intentions and all.

"...and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."