What do you want the government to do for you?

Hmmmm, the deferal government: Just follow this: http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html Just the simple 17 enumerated powers and leave the states alone. Stop robbing us and then turning around and blackmailing and bribing us in to passing or accepting laws WITH OUR OWN MONEY. WE own YOU, not the other way around. My state and local governments Basic services, education, civil law enforcement, infastructure like roads bridges, etc. Basic welfare and assistance. Basic laws for the public good and safety, intra-state commerce and agriculture, wild life and forestry management. State defense and disaster relief. Special note for state governemts: The biggest thing I ask of you, no, DEMAND of you is that you stand up for your state and it's people. Stand up to the general government and keep it in it's constitutional place.

What do I want the government to do for me? That's easy...get the heck out of my personal life and the personal lives of every American citizen. Everything the government touches becomes disastrous; we've seen this in the past. The only thing the government needs to do is to oversee overall national security. Other than that it needs to leave each individual state alone to run as it will, and leave individuals alone to run their lives, whether for good or bad.

There are a few things I would like to do for me. I would like they to keep the nation safe. I would like police and fire service. I don't mind roads and some infrastructure being government run. I like the idea of public schools as well. Free schooling is important to keep America going. Everything else should be private. There is no need for the government to stay involved in business. I may have left out a few things, but not many if any.

This is somewhat an out of the box answer. First, I believe the Imperial Federal Government of the United States has grown beyond our ability to maintain its operation with conventional funding. Reckless spending by both the current and previous administrations have done great harm to our posterity. Just to service the interest on the debt alone is 26 billion per month. What must be done is a drastic reduction in the size and scope of the federal government. Spending at this level is unsustainable and it is immoral to saddle future generations with this reckless pursuit of social engineering. Common infastructure must be maintained, military preparidness must be sustained, current entitlements must be serviced. But we must stop these rediculous pork barrel projects. What can the government do for us? Get out of the way of the free enterprise system. NO BAILOUTS, if car company x fails, let it. The market over time IS self correcting. Thomas Jefferson said once, "most bad government has grown out of too much government". He also said "a government big enough to provide everything you need is big enough to take everything you have". we are living in perilous times and most don't even realize it. First we must take back control of our government in the 2010 elections end limit this usurpers unaffordable social engineering agenda, and attempts to transform our republic into a marxist state.

no offense but in case you didn't notice we are the ones who put up the governments there. so whatever they are doing is a direct reflection of our thoughts and deeds. The government will grow as we grow and do as we do.. if only things were that simple we wouldn't have to worry about voting..

Don't want them to do anything but keep a strong military, shut down our borders, and leave us alone, everything they touch turns to Crap, especially public education, the kids are only being taught to be good comrads.

I wish the government would stop making thing worse than they have to be if they woould take care of what they are suppost to and let me handle my personal affairs by my self......I can go to the doctor now but if the government has their way I won't be able to do that....I can have things I have worked for I don't need them to hold my hand to get them....... I also want them to be a public servent again like they used to be.....No the ones who think they are GOD.......I would like to have Statesmen rather than politions....There hasn't been a Statesman in years........ Most of all I want them to keep their hands out of my Pocket........I'm able to deside that by myself...

I think the first job the federal government has to do is keep us safe, that in alone should keep them busy, I think they need to keep their noses out of Social Security and telling me whether or not they think that I have lived enough or should be told whether or not it is my time to die. I work long and hard for the money that I paid into Social Security, this cra*p about the baby boomers now going to rob social security, we are the ones that put the money into the system, and it is ours to draw when we retire. There is a need for health care, one that they should be after the doctors and hospitals for the ungodly high price of the tests they take, example being allowed to charge $7900. for a MRI, there is no test that cost that much. There are changes that should be made to Medicaid, changes so that the doctors and people can not rip it off, try stopping that. There are too many people that are disabled on the job that deserves to be taken care of till the day the LORD, takes them out of this world not when some counsler says it is time for them to go. Whether I smoke or not is no ones business but mine, try settling our differences with the rest of the world and leave me alone. As for the state where I paid my taxes, I require them to take care of schools, make our roads safe to drive on, make sure the police and fire that work so hard at keeping us safe get the best pay they can, and the equipment they need to do their jobs. If Obama continues to do what he is after, we and this usa will be in one sad shape, if this health care plan of his passes the elderly will be sent home to die, who gives him the right to say who can live and who should die. I will always believe he is the anti christ. Each level of government has their jobs to do, they need to do them and keep their noses out of my life untill they can find something that I do that breaks the law.

I want the government to enforce our immigration laws.If they would do this,it would save the country billions of dollars and give Americans badly needed jobs.

What do I want? Fiscal Responsibility. That is what i want. Other htan that I feel alot of programs that are run by the federal gov. need to given to the states to run.Each state has their own unique problems and situations and needs the flexibility to fix them themselves and a one sides fits all federal bill does not allow for that. Schools for example. I think the states would do a better job than the feds. THe elected officials are closer and can actually see what is going on in THIER state in real time. No child left behind is an example. THey tired to make a one side fits all federal bill for that and it ended up working for no one. THe federal gov. is too far away from some problems to deal with them appropriately. Where as the states would be better able to handle it.

I feel like most anything that I'd personally like the government to do or not to do would be quibbling and could basically be argued either way, for or against. And at the end of the day, it's basically meaningless, and not something I feel like writing 30 paragraphs about. There's a lot of government and a lot of services. What I want from ALL government is simple: Honesty and integrity. I want the men and women who represent other men and women as elected representatives, on all levels, to do what's best for public interest and not personal gain. I want government officials to stop trying to seize power, stop trying to use politics as a way to earn a comfortable living, and start acting as public servants. If that means that people have to put up with more government, then so be it. But I have a feeling if you took the power hunger, the money hungry and the corrupt politicians out of the equation, government would drastically shrink up to a nice, controllable size. I think government, on all levels, is needed to act as upper management in many areas. The problem we have now, especially at the federal level, is that the government wants to own the store instead of running its day-to-day operations and seeing that they go smoothly.

What do I want the government to do for me and my fellow Filipinos? Don't be CORRUPT! Country first PLEASE! Happy MyLotting!

well The government is partly to blame for the housing bubble problem because they have a habit of throwing money at ideas without thinking out a good plan and carrying through with that plan. Instead, they trusted private enterprise to THINK about what lower income families need. The result was a disaster because private enterprise cares about ONE thing. MONEY AND LOTS OF IT!.