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This question is indicative of the ignorance of the left regarding what the role of government actually is.

And by the way, WikiPedia is newly proven to be almost completely inaccurate regarding health and medical issues, so stop quoting from those idiots.

 

So, in your humble opinion, what is the role of government?

 

I can't say it any better than Ezra Taft Benson said it.

 

A National debate about the content of a kid's school lunches is one we should never have to engage in in the first place.

The Federal Government has no place concerning itself with the education of children or what they eat whatsoever. It is none of their purview in the first place.

 

Protect individual Freedom,
Protect Private Property,
Defend the weak from the strong who would take from them their liberty or property either by force or fraud.
Provide for military defense,
Punish Evil-doers.
Provide for common peace and tranquility and
Enforce legally binding contracts between free parties

Absolutely nothing else..............This absolutely includes extorting money from private citizens via force (i.e. taxation) to redistribute those funds to either feed starving children educate children or provide the sick and dying medical care.

None of the Government's affair.

 

Thanks for a rational reply. Actually to do what you say is the role of government will require some redistribution of wealth. Actually a government can do nothing without funds from some source and that redistributes wealth.

If you carry the ideas you expressed, and I agree with them, to their logical conclusion then just about anything can be justified. But isn't that what the argument is about, what do these clauses really mean.

I would say that a government that does not try to feed its starving children or provide for the sick and dying is a useless government, and one that goes directly against the teachings of Christ as well as against common sense of what a government should do. Why should a government have to defend its citizens while letting them starve. Isn't feeding and caring for them a defense and promoting their well being?