Does central government represent itself or the people more?

Government acts very similarly to a corporation---it is primarily concerned with its own survival and well being.

It depends on how big it is. The bigger it is and the more control it wields, the less it cares about the promises it has made to the people.

Actually, it is my opinion Politicians get into government to wield power for their families such as Harry Reid giving his son the Power Plant in Nevada for the Solar Panels for the Chinese. Or to do stupid greedy things like George HW Bush did when he came up with the idea of NAFTA and sold it to Clinton and he sold the country out to China.

We have people in the Central Government that ask what it can do for them in the words of John F Kennedy in other words

The closer the government is to the people, the better they repreSENT the people. LOCAL governments are best to represent the people. The FEDERAL government is meant to protect national interests and uphold and defend the constitution(the fundamental laws and principles of the nation). The CONSTITUTION is there to PROTECT the individual and the states from the FEDERAL government. No one level of government has too much power.

Who elects the people running our central government? The people.

It does represent us - unfortunately, most of us are too lazy to get involved and change the way things go.

For example: the will of the people has given way to the will of the elite, BUT most people don’t seem to care, and then you have right-wing media lying to the people, which doesn’t help.

The United States is a government of laws but, the government is run by people and, pobody's nerfect.

You of all people should admit you know it represents itself well. The people be hanged.

The people.

It is just the losers of elections who complain about this. They can't win a national election, so they claim they never wanted to play at all and demand more power for offices who's elections they can win.

Iron triangles are a mixture of both: Congressional committees with oversight, Administrative agencies with budgets, and the people that benefit from the program.

And, yes the agency is a beaurocracy that protects itself, just like corporate beaurocracies do. everybody protecting their paycheck.

I don't think there is any hard fast rule on that. I think it all depends on whois running it and how much they care about following whatever constitution may be in place.

It represents the bankers of this country