Kandrathe@Sep 6 2004, 09:42 AM Wrote:What the federal government needs to do is focus on protecting the citizens from terrorism. Everything else is gravy.
I'm assuming you really mean "spends a lot of money on is protecting the U.S. from terrorists, keeping crime down, run any other things the military might do, etc. everything else it spends a lot of money on is gravy" In which case I say that the government also should run and/or regulate other things that don't have profits to get companies to do them, but need a lot of money, such as roads, telephone lines, etc. to remote places without many people and education for examples. You may have been thinking this too. But the main point is that the government should be doing a lot more than just foreign affairs and the military because it controls a lot of money but is here for qa different reason than othert groups/organizations that control a lot of money.
I'd argue that health care is more important right now than terrorist attacks, since terrorist attacks have killed a few thousand early, but health problems can kill a few million early. If whatever health system seems to work the best involves the government, than the government should get involved. The major worry is more finding a way to get healthcare to work better. Here is where people go and get the stastics on different health costs, where monsy goes, how insurance companies work, etc.
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