The ills of government services — less care for one another

Gary Johnson has promised to not raise taxes for ANYONE, and yet to balance the budget. I, too, feel that the government has grown too much, and has taken on too many unconstitutional responsibilities that could be more efficiently, and less expensively be provided by non-governmental groups, such as non-profits (or even for profits).

Americans have proved to be the most generous people in the world, but as government takes on additional services and responsibilities, the response has changed from "What can I do to help?" to "Why should I help. That's the government's responsibility." That, in my mind, is as equally bad as a person feeling that the government should take care of him or her, instead of that person taking care of himself or herself.

The ever expanding government affects our feelings of responsibilities for one another. In many ways, this is more destructive to our society and our ability to function as a nation. We OUGHT to feel and take responsibility for one another. However, the government should NOT FORCE us to take care of one another by forcibly taking our resources and wasting a large portion of it doing what we could do more efficiently and less expensively for one another. We're no longer a society that knows and cares for our neighbors, and I would argue that government trying to take that responsibility away from us has played a key part in that.

When we voluntarily, of our own free will and choice, take care of one another, our nation will be far stronger than it could ever be if government is taxing us, wasting money, and providing pale imitations of the same acts of goodness and service.