Question: Except for military. What has the government done to make you proud?

Glenn Beck ^ | Apr 17, 2012

[KeyLargo]

Glenn Beck is asking his listeners now on his radio program the question:

"Except for the military.

What has the government done to make you proud?"

My answer: NOTHING.

Any thoughts?

Your answers?

[Gandalf_The_Gray]

In my opinion the US peaked during the 60's and began a slow decline. The decline is paced by the number of drones "working" at all levels of government. As the percentage of government employees staggers ever closer towards 50% of the population, our blessed Constitutional Republic devolves at an ever increasing pace towards a European style social(ist) democracy. Once we cross the 50% mark, it's all over, as the inmates will be running the asylum.

The government that's big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take away everything you have.

[KeyLargo]

“Obama authorized the Military to shoot and kill the 3 pirates who held that ship captain hostage in 2009; an act I am sure he (Obama) regrets.

That is the ONLY thing I can think of in the last 3-1/2 years.”

That is why “Except for military” was in the question.

[KeyLargo]

By Robert VerBruggen

NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com

Privatize Air-Traffic Control
By Robert VerBruggen
September 23, 2011 4:00 A.M.

In the GOP debate on September 7, moderator Brian Williams asked candidate Ron Paul if the government has a role in “air-traffic control, controlling the jets above our heads.”

“I think in theory,” Paul replied, “if you understood the free market in a free society, you don’t need government to do that.”

Williams seemed taken aback; he evidently thought that without the federal government, there would be no air-traffic control at all: “All the pilots in the sky, to add to their responsibilities, their own air-traffic control, in an organic way?” And the comment brought Paul ridicule from the Left, including Talking Points Memo.

But just two weeks later, none other than Peter Orszag — formerly the director of the Office of Management and Budget for the Obama administration, and currently a Citigroup executive — endorsed a kind of privatized air-traffic control in a Bloomberg op-ed. This is not only a good idea; it’s a centrist one.

http://www.nationalreview.com/blogs/print/278042