What Does Our Government Do?

What does our government do?

What does our government do? I think lots of people do not realize all of the things government does. I fore on take for granted all of the things our government does.

How we love to hate our government. Have you really stopped to think about what our government actually does for us? Here is an incomplete list of 100 things of what our government does, or has done, for the American people.

What Does Our Government Do?

 

100 Things Government Does For Americans

 

Air Force

 

Army

 

Art Galleries

 

Automobile Licensing

 

Automobile Safety

 

Bill of Rights

 

Business Incorporation

 

Border Protection

 

Coal Energy & Subsidies

 

College

 

Computer Research and Development

 

Congress

 

Constitution

 

Countless Innovations for Everyday Life

 

Courthouses

 

Disaster Assistance

 

Disaster Recovery

 

Early Childhood Services

 

Elementary Schools

 

Environmental Protection

 

Export Trade

 

Fair Business Practices

 

Financial Aid

 

Fire Fighters

 

Fire Fighting

 

First Time Home Buyer

 

Flood Management

 

Food Safety

 

Food Stamps

 

Foreign Affairs

 

Foster Care

 

Free Media

 

Fresh Water

 

Gas Energy & Subsidies

 

Global Positioning System

 

Grants

 

Health Care

 

Health Standards

 

High Schools

 

Highways

 

Homeownership Assistance

 

Housing Assistance

 

Hydropower

 

Import Trade

 

Independent News

 

Internet

 

Jailhouses

 

Judicial System

 

Land Management

 

Law Creation

 

Law Enforcement

 

Librarians

 

Libraries

 

Living Standards

 

Marines

 

Medical Safety

 

Medicare

 

Memorials

 

Mental Health

 

Middle Schools

 

Museums

 

NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)

 

National Defense

 

National Guard

 

National Parks

 

National Security

 

Navy

 

NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)

 

NPR (National Public Radio)

 

Oil Energy & Subsidies

 

PBS (Public Broadcasting Station)

 

Personal Protection

 

Police Officers

 

Power Research and Development

 

Preschools

 

Prisons

 

Product Safety

 

Protecting Our Liberties

 

Public Schools

 

Railroads

 

Rescue Workers

 

Roads

 

School Teachers

 

Senate

 

Sewage Treatment

 

Smithsonian Institute

 

Social Security

 

Solar Power

 

Special Needs Assistance

 

State Parks

 

Student Aid

 

Student Loans

 

Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment

 

Unemployment Insurance

 

Unemployment Job Assistance

 

United States Postal Service

 

Weather Satellites

 

Wind Energy & Subsidies

 

Youth Development

 

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This is far from a complete list of what our government does. This was simply meant to get us to stop and think about “What does our government do?” It does a lot, nobody can argue that fact.

Feel free to post in the comments below. Did you think of any other important things about “What does our government do?” Please post your additions below.

Planned Parenthood is About Women’s Health

Political Maneuvering Threatens the Health of Millions of Women

planned-parenthood-busThe attacks on our basic services continue. This time they are targeting women’s health. The government wants to make outrageous funding cuts Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood provides a broad spectrum of essential services to millions of women. Their opposition chooses to focus on one facet of service to women in order to justify the cuts. Planned Parenthood provides invaluable health care services for millions of women, without the burden of narrow, shortsighted, and religious views. Politicians seek to cut funding through the guise of required budget cuts that only go after the services they are ideologically opposed to. Shameful.

Planned Parenthood helps millions of women a year through services and education. They provide preventative care, help women deal with serious health concerns, reproductive issues, and provide education regarding healthy pregnancy.

Many of these women have little to no income, and cannot afford regular health insurance and health care. Planned Parenthood provides a safe and non-judgmental place where women can seek medical help and counseling. Those who could not seek treatment elsewhere would go untreated, were it not for this organization, ultimately costing Medicare and other social services so much more.

They also provide a place for teenagers who are sexually active or are considering becoming sexually active to get some education, health care, and contraception, in most states without requiring parental consent. In some cases, teenagers who are too afraid or embarrassed to ask their parents have a resource for this information, preventing teen pregnancy and disease.

Planned Parenthood is a vital part of our support structure for these women and help to prevent many preventable and treatable deaths per year.

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Planned Parenthood provides the following services and many more to low income women nationwide:

  • STD Tests
  • Pap Smears
  • Breast Exams
  • Birth Control
  • Reproductive Issues Education
  • Service for Title X Patients

Stand With Planned Parenthood

Planned Parenthood plans a week-long demonstration throughout the country to counter the misinformation being spread by anti-choice demonstrators and Republicans pushing these funding cuts beginning March 7th.

Write your representatives and tell them it is totally unacceptable to cut funding to such a vital group as Planned Parenthood. It is especially insulting when they are willing to sacrifice the health and well-being of millions of women and children, but are unwilling to give up tax breaks for the upper 2% of Americans (which would greatly decrease the need to make these kind of budget cuts in the first place). It is totally un-American to force its most desperate people to sacrifice so much when the politicians will not sacrifice even a little.

If you can head out to one of the demonstration areas and join Planned Parenthood in their Truth Tour, please do so this week. Show your support for them and the millions of women they support. Don’t let the ridiculous Politico environment continue to erode our most basic services, our safety nets, that help to keep this country and its people strong. Stand up, stand tall, and support the rights of the people and the services they use. Fight back, stand proud and help Planned Parenthood keep the funding it needs to keep reaching out to millions of low income women.

Please go and sign the petition in support of Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood supports millions of women nationwide who depend on their services for their own personal health.

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