What is it? Please be explicit as possible. This is a relatively simple question, so let's see what you think.

Personally, I think the government's only purposes are to:

1.) Protect the rights, life, liberty, and property, of all the individuals in the nation.
2.) Defend the country from foreign or domestic invasion or subversion.
3.) Protect the free market from the forces of monopolies.
4.) Provide a system that represents the people, so that the power of the government is put in check.
5.) Ensure that no one person or group in the government becomes so powerful as to prevent any of the previous purposes.

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"You are just stuck in a box."

--Zaro

I gotta say... we've yet ANOTHER good guy!

Welcome aboard... great post.

You'll find the left hesitant to chime in, as they prefer to operate in the all important "echo-chamber."

Best to find the threads which are acting as such and bust'em up...

Good to have you on board, another voice of reason with talent on loan from G-g-g-g-o-d.

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ABoyNamedSue - Speaking of Crestwoods posts - And then there'll be some link to some page, written in hindu or something, talking about sherpas and A&W root beer, and how George Bush is to blame for some Jewish neo-nazi death camp, run by Elvis Presley, on the far side of the moon that's been busted for killing kittens or something

The proper role of government?

Make sure my rights aren't infringed upon.

Defend the Constitution (although I think we need a new one) from domestic and foreign threats.

6.) To provide services that are economically inefficient but necessary for progress.

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So your logic is that if we are not there, the number will go down... That makes perfect sense... not.

If we wrote a new constitution there would be a McDonald's logo on it, F that.

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So your logic is that if we are not there, the number will go down... That makes perfect sense... not.

True.

Although, while the Constitution itself is genius in nature, it has been completely ineffective in stopping the growth of government. It is only a paper after all.

Well, the whole system is genius, truly. It prevents true immediate change, and thank god for that. However, not all government is bad, but not all government is good. We should demand a system that separates the bad from the good.

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So your logic is that if we are not there, the number will go down... That makes perfect sense... not.

But that is the problem. Truthfully, the masses of Americans don't care or like the system. They like government.

Which scares me.

Perhaps a genocide is in order?

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So your logic is that if we are not there, the number will go down... That makes perfect sense... not.