Originally Posted By: hikermor
Personally, I have experienced many more situations where G'vment helped greatly in emergencies than otherwise.
Ditto for me.

The government, like any large organization will often be cumbersome in responding to fast breaking events, just by virtue of its size. People mistake that cumbersomeness for deliberate evilness, which is not generally the case, in my opinion.
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