Question: The government works for me

The government is my servant, I know this because:

(Please list below the reasons why you know that this government 'works for you/is serving your needs. Please list reasons why you know that all of your tax dollar are working for YOU (and your future).

The government doesn't work for or serve our needs. My tax dollars are not working for me or my future. I can't imagine you getting any different answers than the above. This is no longer a representative government.

...perhaps tomorrow I will take it over to Free Republic and see if I have any better luck there! :shrug:

Government gets so much blame but it is we who are responsible for it.

While we were sleeping we let our representative government get away. Sometimes it's quite difficult to regain something we've lost.

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"We" are the government....so what are 'we' gonna do about it....one-by-one....it DOES make the difference!

I received many many times more money from Federal grants and loans than I ever did from my parents or from working at minimum wage jobs.

If you don't mind me asking, what time period was this that you got the grants? Is there something similar now that you know of? Please supply as many specifics as you feel comfortable.

Before Reagan decimated these programs. Work study, National Direct Student Loans, and Guarenteed Student Loans. NDSL = 3%, GSl = 7%, at a time when market interest rates were 12%+

Sad that students cannot benefit from these anymore.

...America may 'forgive', but it doesn't forget. Our current 'leaders' need to know this! And even the 'forgivin' part might be s-l - o - w .

they'll never stop...fuckers are outside my door right now...going to find something...fuckers...but the dogs are are following the wrong scent. :smoke:

At least some of it.

college education: funding Pell Grants and subsidizing student loans;
grants for university programs
funding workstudy

mortgage: funding FHA, VA, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac to back private banks so that they can offer mortgages I can afford

Banking regulation: keeping my bank honest and interest rates are capped.

Securities and Exechange Commission: Keeping my broker honest.

Pension Guarantee Corporation: Makes sure my pension isn't tapped into by corporate thieves.

FDA: making sure my drugs are safe and really work

Consumer Product Safety Commission: makes sure my products work safely

FTC: makes sure of truth in advertising

EPA: keeps my vacation spots clean. Keeps cities clean -- I remember Pittsburg in the '70s -- a nasty place.

Department of Labor (state): unemployment insurance

Medicaid/Medicare: kept my mom alive... made sure Mom was not a burden on us kids.

SBA: gives loans to small business

Thanks, George!