Miriam Scheel, Chapter 4, Question 7

In this chapter I learned how complex the question oof government innvolvvvement actualy is. This question has been around in the U.S. for almost as long as the U.S. are an independent country: how much should the government regulate american citizens lifes, and how much should it regulate the economy. Should it be allowed to regulate our daily life or leave everything as it is and not touch any aspect of our life? In the end neither is desirable or practible in this country and a golden middle has to be found. If that exists in this case.

In the history of this country there have been good examples for and against strong and little influencive government. The communist government of the Soviet Union (and several still existing countries) provide several arguments that prove that overly controling governments hold back the economy and restrict its natural growth. In none of these countries would a margarita space pack ever been developed. And when in the U.S. The government made a decision that should have been left on its own, a particle accelerator ended up in Texas instead of Chicago where it would have been a lot more efficient. 

On the other hand does a less intrusive government not automatically lead to a faster growing economy and a better society as shown in examples from India, where a corrupt government lead to a corrupt, inefficient and unjust justice system, or the fishing restrictions in Massachusetts that backfired on everyone. 

All this information together should not lead to the conclusion that government, no matter how ingaged in society and economics, is allways failing, but that there is no absolute answers to how involved the government should be. It allways depends on the situation and the problems society faces. There are cases when the world turns without the government moving it, then the it would probably damage more than help, and there are cases in which the government is essential to the solution of a crisis. 

I was not aware of most of the aspects of this question, in my mind I had set up an answer that would solve all the problems, and even though I still believe in the direction this answer went I did realize that the question as well as the answer is a lot more complex than that.