Someone once told me "if you want to hit the jackpot, get a government job. Like the weatherman you can be wrong half the time, get a good pay and very little scrutiny and still keep your position".

I don't trust the goverment to do whats right for the people period.

I used to trust the military, when the constitutionally-
required civilian leadership was present. and I used
to trust some of the courts, until Roberts turned on
us. I used to trust the patent office, until I awoke
with the Hallings' help. there isn't much left. -- j

very fine reply, Susanne, and Thank You!!! -- j

Another angle: How do you reconcile your complaint with the objectivist reasoned selfishness of all of us who care first about our own life, liberty, property and happiness?

"...all we need is for the government to get out of the way..."

Yes. I agree.

Jan

And Dems don't screw us? Just look along this set of comments and tell us which of these complaints and injuries to our rights Dems did not participate in causing? I am listening.

Start saving your money, selling your skills to an NZ company, and selling your guns...

As I best recall, Robert Ringer in his "Looking Out for #1", enumerated the three functions of government. They are:
1. To make you do something you do not want to do,
2. To keep you from doing something you do want to do, and
3. To take away what is rightfully yours.
I completely trust the government to execute these three responsibilities.

I trust them to lie cheat and steal - To try to control my every movement to their own benefit - ultimately to try to enslave me! Basically I trust the government to suck most of the scoundrels out of the decent population and deposit them in positions of corrupt power. Government is evil and the larger it is the more evil it is.

Susanne, I love you, just don't tell my wife, and I did read it twice. I can hardly wait until the next election since we don't have the initiative to do anything about anything yet. I can't imagine what I will do if the election doesn't come out my way. I would hope New Zealand would let me move there.

I'm sure that is sufficiently established now that it has become a juggernaut. No matter who is in the White House, "Homeland Security" and related agencies are going to continue to grow. Increasingly obviously, they have an agenda that has nothing to do with terrorists, perhaps the result merely of trying to justify their jobs. But I doubt it.

And obummer just continues to add to their spoils...

The GOP only cares for themselves and screw the rest of us.

I trust them to take my money and give it to people who didn't earn it and causes that I am against. God knows what they do with the rest of it....

I trust them to tax the living crap out of me. I trust them to limit my freedoms as a human being. I trust them to accumulate more power in Washington. I don't trust them for anything else.

I trust the government to act like this drawing of King Barry--

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=snak...

So long as our representatives in government are controlled by corporations and the wealthy then not one of them can be trusted. Our elected officials do not work for us, and so long as the majority of voters remain brain-dead nothing will change.

I trust the government to over tax corporations and drive them out of our country to create their own gulch
.

Hell no! The entrenched Bureaucrats in all the offices in the five-sided-puzzle-palace, and those controlled by those offices are bought and paid for by the same people they are paid to regulate.

As a collective with a monopoly on force, I trust that big government will grow like a parasite, attracting the worse kind of people.
The truth hurts. Big governments hurt more.

I trust the government to seek power - especially those who want to be in government in the first place. I do not trust them to seek for anything beyond that because their primary goal is to seek for power at the expense of the freedom of the American people.

When the individual participants of this nation decide to return to a moral foundation and elect representatives who also support a moral foundation and Constitutional virtues, we may return our country to greatness. I have grave doubts this will happen without a catastrophe, however.

In humble opinion, I believe you may have prefaced this with the following.

"When in the Course of human events...... To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world."

10+

The only thing I trust the Government to do is infringe on my rights to live MY life.

I trust the Government to TAKE from me the product of MY labor and give it to other people.

I Trust the Government to always do the WRONG thing morally, ethically, financially and legally.

I Trust the Government to NEVER put the best interest of the PEOPLE in first place, but only be concerned about keeping their own cushy jobs and bilking the taxpayers out of as much as they can before they leave office.