The sole purpose
of our government is to help the public and restore problems in the nation. But is the government responsive to the needs of its citizens?
In 2005 when
Hurricane Katrina hit the Atlantic Coast and the Gulf of New Mexico, thousands
of lives were taken and many people were left without a home, especially in New
Orleans. Our government immediately declared the National Response Plan in
response to the hurricane in attempt to help the hurricane victims. Nonetheless
despite the various government relief programs, eventually the needs of the
people in New Orleans were forgotten about and as a result today hundreds of
people are still homeless there. Even though our government was responsive at first,
eventually it stopped worrying about it’s citizens because the cost to repair
New Orleans was tremendous. Our government can’t afford to help it’s own
citizens--people that put them in office—because it’s too costly however
presidential candidates can spend millions of dollars on campaigns making empty
promises just to get elected. It’s surprising to note that neither candidate
has yet to mention how they’ll effectively restore New Orleans in any of their
speeches.
Our government is
portrayed as the TMZ of politics. It constantly
argues about the latest issues regardless of how important they are. However,
our government fails to resolve previous issues that are continuing to affect citizens. It’s safe to say that the government is going to have some sort
of relief program for the victims of Hurricane Sandy however in a couple of
months those people and their needs will be forgotten about because there will be some other
issue that seems more important that the government will divert it’s attention
to.
Despite everything however, our
government-- even if it’s for a little bit-- attends to the needs of the people
in order to pacify the public temporarily. Take a look at President Obama, when
he was running for office back in 2008, he promised to restore the economy and
end the war in Iraq. Even though he made some effort to please the public, he
was unsuccessful because again like TMZ he pushed the old issues aside and focused
his attention on the new ones. As a result now the public considers his
presidency unsuccessful. What the public fails to note is that every president
is like that and will continue to be like that. In the first couple of years they’ll
do whatever it takes to please the public, then after a while when they have spent some time
governing our nation, they'll slowly begin to push issues that the public previously found important
aside and begin to focus their attention the more current issues.
If our government were
able to focus its attention on one issue at a time then more issues would get
resolved and citizens will be more pleased.
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