A piece from my term paper. Any other things i could add?

[danny987]

I’m also surprised someone would trust the government with something as important as healthcare. How often do we talk about how corrupt and crocked our politicians are? Do you know a single person who thinks the government doesn’t lie? Off the top of my head I recall the Gulf of Tonkin incident. This incident was the justification of the Vietnam war. It ends up that this incident was all a lie. Nearly 60,000 young citizens were killed over a deliberate government lie. September 10th 2001 the government announces it didn’t spend, but lost 2.3 trillion dollars in one year. 8,000 dollars for every man women and child in the united states was lost in a single year. Yes, 20,000 people may die every year due to lack of insurance, but on average 1,740,000 are murdered by their own government each year (that’s enough bodies to circle the earth four times with a ring of corpses). That does not include war casualties that only includes murder. Now im not saying our government is going to go on a murderous rampage, but the point I am making is that we should not trust the government. Distrust of the government is the spirit that our nation was founded on, and yet many are ready to hand it our lives on a silver platter.

Any other examples i could add of the government being distrustful?

[erowe1]

I can't speak for your professor. So his or her expectations may be different. But term papers are not generally the venue for: contractions, use of the second person pronoun, use of the first person pronoun, saying that the evidence you present is off the top of your head.

As for other examples, I know some other folks here can rattle off a bunch on command. Here's one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Study_of_Untreated_Syphilis_in_the_Negro_ Male

[emazur]

Any other examples i could add of the government being distrustful?

YouTube - Mississippi's KGB: "Mississippi Sovereignty Commission" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92uB79qXjfU)

[jclay2]

You need to expand on your examples. You are cluttering way to many ideas for that size of a paragraph. I would probably expand it to three paragraphs and explain each example of government corruption/murder in greater detail. If this is a conclusion to a term paper, then I would suggest taking the most extreme example of government mishandling/corruption and state why we need to have distrust of the government firmly rooted in our society.

[Dieseler]

I’m also surprised someone would trust the government with something as important as health care.

How often do we talk about how corrupt and crooked our politicians are? Do you know a single person who thinks the government doesn’t lie?

Off the top of my head I recall the Gulf of Tonkin incident. This incident was the justification of the Vietnam war. It ends up that this incident was all a lie. Nearly 60,000 young citizens were killed over a deliberate government lie.

September 10th 2001 the government announces it didn’t spend, but lost 2.3 trillion dollars in one year. 8,000 dollars for every man women and child in the united states was lost in a single year.

Yes, 20,000 people may die every year due to lack of insurance, but on average 1,740,000 are murdered by their own government each year (that’s enough bodies to circle the earth four times with a ring of corpses). That does not include war casualties that only includes murder.

Now I'm not saying our government is going to go on a murderous rampage, but the point I am making is that we should not trust the government. Distrust of the government is the spirit that our nation was founded on, and yet many are ready to hand it our lives on a silver platter.

That separates all of the ideas into their own contextual paragraphs.

[Elwar]

Here's an essay I did on the AT&T monopoly that doesn't explicitely compare it to health care, but I wrote it with the idea of showing where health care will go under government control:

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=213517&highlight=monopoly

[Chieftain1776]

Here's (http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1009/ahlert101609.php3) a great breakdown of projected costs of programs vs actual costs. Government is wrong by 2000% in some cases. I couldn't find a graph but you could make one.

Also you should cite your sources and, honestly, while I agree with your larger point about Democide (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democide) I think it's a bit much for a paper. You should consider dredging up specific news stories (http://www.biggovhealth.org/stories) about denial of treatment for patients in government run systems and note how Medicare denies coverage more than any insurer in America:


http://biggovernment.com/files/2009/10/AMAdenials.jpg

[jmdrake]

Any other examples i could add of the government being distrustful?

Katrina. Countless examples of the government getting in the way of private citizens who wanted to help. Volunteer firemen were rerouted to Atlanta for "sensitivity training". Doctors were not allowed to go in until they got special licenses. Cuba tried to send a relief ship and they were turned back. Churches relief agencies had warehouses overflowing with needed aid, but those who had gone through the FEMA training were no longer independent agencies so they couldn't go in. One church would be a collection center, another would be a distribution center, another would actually give the aid. All this happened under the auspices of FEMA so it became a single point of failure. And for the idiots that think the problems were just because New Orleans was a "black city" there were similar problems in south Mississippi. Also when Rita hit and Houston evacuated there were more deaths from the evacuation than from the hurricane. FEMA is a monstrosity that should be abolished.