Since World War II, Americans have always shared a common belief that government is by and for people, and that government has a good and essential role to play in all our lives.
From Social Security to public schools, from the GI bill to CHIP, Americans believed that government is “us,” all of us pulling together doing those jobs, which each of us alone could not do, doing those jobs that made us admired by every country, every individual in the world. . .