The Purpose of Government

[girthman]

What do you think are the duties of a government? I'm not citing any country in particular, just what you feel governments should address and take care of.

[jawstheme]

Bail out banks and big corporations!

[mcm1610]

"to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity"

[Kozzy333]

To make sure them queermosexuals can't get married.

[Jake Gyllenhaal]

Because anarchy just doesn't work.

[thatwasamoment]

To create govt cheese

[knash9]

to shut down Limewire

[Debut_Fin]

to make sure the blacks never make as much money as the whites

[PandaBear!]

To give us something to rage against maaaannnnn :beard:

[girthman]

I think "to shut down limewire" is my fav so far lol

[loveisdead]

Well this thread is off to a great start.

[girthman]

Well this thread is off to a great start.

Yea...but this was expected...no offense to anyone who posted

[caveBEAR]

Government should protect the people they represent; however, what people think government should be protecting them from (or whether they think government is what they need protection from) varies greatly from person to person.

[maxvsmaradona]

governments govern governments who in turn govern governments.

[Scrandon]

governments govern governments who in turn govern governments.
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[Neo Cassady]

To give us something to rage against maaaannnnn :beard:

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[maxvsmaradona]

http://i51.tinypic.com/qs778z.jpg

I thought hurricane season was over.

[saysmydoctor]

Who let the incredibly unfunny Max Daulerio in? Someone redirect him to Heartcore's twitterfeed, please.

[Scrandon]

I thought hurricane season was over.
Swing and a miss

[maxvsmaradona]

Who let the incredibly unfunny Max Daulerio in? Someone redirect him to Heartcore's twitterfeed, please.

What does she have to do with any of this?

edit: wait, sean, I thought we was cool, yo?

[Hagysaurus Rex]

anal

[Love As Arson]

"The state is therefore by no means a power imposed on society from without; just as little is it “the reality of the moral idea,” “the image and the reality of reason,” as Hegel maintains. Rather, it is a product of society at a particular stage of development; it is the admission that this society has involved itself in insoluble self-contradiction and is cleft into irreconcilable antagonisms which it is powerless to exorcise. But in order that these antagonisms, classes with conflicting economic interests, shall not consume themselves and society in fruitless struggle, a power, apparently standing above society, has become necessary to moderate the conflict and keep it within the bounds of “order”; and this power, arisen out of society, but placing itself above it and increasingly alienating itself from it, is the state."

[Zeran]

anal
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