Do we really need a Government over the people? How many of you believe, states should run themselves?

Actually, I live in California. It would make little difference.

The problem with your question is that you confusing a bunch of related points, because you are using, I think, the phrase 'Our Government" to be "Our National Government". If this is correct, you make some related claims, none of which you provide evidence for:

1) The national government is not decent and trustworthy, it is selfish, makes bad laws and is too big

2) The national government makes you poor and indigent

Such claims are largely irrelevant, since you could apply them equally to the states. In fact, what is crucially missing from your arguement is how some arbitrary size makes the government turn from 'decent and trust worthy' to demonic.

You could have at least trotted out the well worn argument that because your proportion of the vote is 1 in a million or 1 in 50 million that that is somehow much better than 1 over 100 million. But I think it is readily apparent that this is the path to foolishness.

In fact, it might interest you to know that historically it was our efficiently run small states to the south who wanted to carry on with slavery, when the rest of civilized world was about done with it. Such is the seduction of plantation life, mint juleps and mardi gras.

Nor is it any small consolation that the federal government spend 3/4rs of it's funding on Social Security, Medicare and Defense, vital programs that, at the national level, are stronger and fairer to provide.

So, I think it is better to deal with reality and real issues, facts and reasons, rather than speculation, theory and abstractions.

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States should not run themselves because that takes us back to the pre-Articles of Confederation period. Where each state has its own currency, does not acknowledge each other's rules or laws, or taxes each other like crazy for travel through a state. It would be like having mini-countries. It would be hell to drive from state to state. I mean the government isn't the greatest, but it's the tape that keeps us together so things semi-work. We're human, and corruption will always exist because of that fact. Face it, we're stuck.

How do people so easily forget WE ARE THE GOVERNMENT. We elect them from amongst ourselves. It's only as big as WE make it and as much as WE need it. A civilized government has given America so much, why so many people want to abandon it and turn into Somalia is beyond me.

Even Republicans wouldnt go for that one. If we did away with the Gov. will you protect this country??

Tried it that way - the Articles of Confederation were not effective.

That would be orchestrated chaos, sir.

i DISAGREE states should not run by themselves