They've Created a Monster?!!

"It may be a reflection on human nature," Madison wrote in the famous passage in Federalist No. #51, "[i]that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government. But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. "In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself." ....[/i]

i think they could but they wont get the right people in government or rather we are not getting the right ones that care to. i think as long as they are ok, they dont care about anyone else. dummys all since Reagan.

Nope.

It never has. No reason to think it will now.

I have no doubt they could, but not until electoral candidates are required to prove their suitability, in terms of intelligence, education, sucessful experience, ethics, morality, and compassion, before being allowed to stand for office. Not until the process of lobbying is banned. Not until media corporations are forced to give equal time and space to all sides of the political debate, and not just the one their owners agree with. And since "saving the world" is not the sole responsibility of the West/developed world despite what so many Americans seem to think, not until religion and state are completely separated and women are given universal suffrage. And on a purely practical "now" basis, not until the UN Security Council is disbanded and its veto power removed. I could no doubt find a hundred more "not untils" if pushed, this is just off the top of my head. Lash

Corruption is the one of the biggest challenges faced by the most of the countries. We own a free government untill we throw the corruption from each of the political leaders and i find it is quite difficult to find a free uncorrupted country because each of the political leaders are looking for higher posts as well as to get maximum money to fill their pocket. The dream of a good free independent country exist only as a dream until we throw those political leaders from our constitution.

Theoretically, government should be able to solve the world's problems since they are supposed to represent the will of the people. But with power comes greed and all sorts of moral perversions and government serves no one but those in power. So no, government can't solve the world's problems. The only way it could is if the world's problems would be solved by serving government.