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U.S. citizens, Why should we not consider the federal government an enemy of our country?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    The government has the ability to give and to take away, the whole problem is they take from the workers and give it to those that won't work, and those that make bad judgments with their means and where with all. A war time enemy would be more practical than our feeble minded leaders.

  • Simon
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    You should always consider any government an enemy of the people. They are an extremely powerful force, and always have been.

    Governments are there to serve a task. Ours was put into place to promote life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It was to be a nation of laws, and not men. Where the laws merely protected the freedoms of each individual.

    After the failings of the Articles of Confederation, our leaders got together and wrote the Constitution putting the outline (chains) for the federal government. Though, it seems in recent times the Constitution has been looked upon as some old relic that belongs in a museum as opposed to the primary document guiding the country.

  • 5 years ago

    The Founding Fathers the place so poetic and clever. They have been properly examine adult men whose background replaced into the British Empire and their foreground replaced right into an excellent open destiny in a rustic that had no longer yet hit puberty. even nevertheless, they crafted a less than excellent shape because of the fact it did no longer contain the rights of close by human beings and that they too the place the creators of the american ordinary employer. those same Founding Fathers contradicted themselves interior their very own lifetime. The imperative do what I say, no longer what I do. Capitalism had no longer yet seeded into the government, ideals the place shared and information the place the handwritten grasp piece of each community. It replaced into the promise of what they could do, and how they could be diverse below rule, extremely of a monarchy. on your question, we've elected officers who do no longer understand the form. They run for a constitutional workplace to run government like a corporation. A "C student" in a corporation college ought to tell you that working a 2 hundred 12 months previous forms is in comparison to a corporation. extremely of public servants, we get politicians who think of in terms of.......words. while they are going to be in workplace and for a manner long. upload that to 550 contributors of Congress better by using a a million or 2 term President, stir somewhat hater rhetoric, a pinch of certainty and then a pound of hardship. mixture thoroughly in freedom language, sprinkle some constitutional words and then thats it! we've something called a central authority that gets no longer something performed, no person is conscious who did it, no person is going to be incorrect. To make doubly beneficial we unravel it we check out and that too is it! possibly. My factor is right this moment, their are no longer any strains of accountability interior government. The Founding Fathers suitable or incorrect, slave dealer or no longer, stood by using his word and stood for something.

  • janey
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    I know why we should not consider the federal gov. an enemy of our country, it's because, umm, wait..oh, no, they are incompetent. oh yes, i know...nooo, they have no intregrity, they waste my money, they are greedy..gee there must be some reason, let me think about it for awhile. Nope, didn't help. Guess there is no reason after all.

  • 1 decade ago

    the government is the enemy but many of us are to blind or stupid to see this.

  • 1 decade ago

    For the same reason i don't consider my tower, the enemy of my computer....

    Without a government there is no country. there is no ruling body that defines/enforces laws, and defends borders. Otherwise all you have is individual mobs of people laying claim to parcels of land... Which guess what.... Thats government too!

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    It is and we should. Read the Declaration of Independence. I think they are more hostile than Britain was.

  • 1 decade ago

    Because the federal government is our country?

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    because the FBI and CIA would lock your butt up so fast.......just like Nazi Germany

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