Government? What government? #322 By Hank Silverberg "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice , insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." The words above are the preamble to the U.S. Constitution. When James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and John Jay crafted the document in 1787, they believed it was the responsibility of the FEDERAL government to provide for the common defense--which is the basis of the U.S. military. They also believed it was the federal government's job to " promote the general Welfare" of the nation's citizens. That is why the Congress, over the last 250 years, has created agencies like the FDA, which protects our food supply and makes sure the medicines we take are...