Where Would We Be without Government?

Given the size and scope of the federal bureaucracy and everything it does for us today, it's amazing our country was able to survive the dark ages of small government, free enterprise and individual liberty.

What condition would our nation be in without the government regulating our health care system?

What would people do without a government-run retirement plan?

How could we have ever expected private and religious charitable organizations to function without government funding?

What would we do without the government's ability to coerce stubborn state legislatures to pass sensible DWI laws?

How much worse would it be without the government's masterful handling of our immigration policy?

How did businesses ever thrive without government regulations, subsidies or bail-outs?

What could possibly make us feel more safe than allowing the government to snoop into the private affairs of U.S. citizens?

How did we make it in the days before government control of education?

Why would we even want to take part in the political process without the government telling us what we can and can't say?

Where would we be without an eloquent, truthful, morally and socially conservative, fiscally responsible foreign policy genius in the White House?

Without the government taxing, regulating and overseeing virtually every aspect of our daily lives, how could we truly call ourselves the "Land of the Free"?

I ask you: where would we be without government?