With the proviso that not all governments do any or all of these things well.
* Manage defense forces
* Create laws and maintain the legal system including running prisons
* Reticulated services: roads, water, sewerage, electricity, communications
* Grant and control ownership of property.
* Health systems.
* Protect the integrity and safety of food.
"All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what has the Government ever done for us?"
That is one of my favorite clips of all time!!!!
....and now.... https://www.theguardian.com/culture/video/201...etch-what-has-the-echr-ever-done-for-us-video
I like it.
The original
With the proviso that not all governments do any or all of these things well.
* Manage defense forces
* Create laws and maintain the legal system including running prisons
* Reticulated services: roads, water, sewerage, electricity, communications
* Grant and control ownership of property.
* Health systems.
* Protect the integrity and safety of food.
That is one of my favorite clips of all time!!!!
....and now.... https://www.theguardian.com/culture/video/201...etch-what-has-the-echr-ever-done-for-us-video
I like it.
The original