The Government And The Economy

A well constructed government, at a minimum, provides its citizens FDR’s four freedoms: 

• Freedom of speech and expression
• Freedom of worship
• Freedom from want
• Freedom from fear

A good well constructed government would want what is best for the society or nation as a whole; understand that a healthy, well fed, well housed, well educated society or nation with a stable quality government is best.  

A well constructed, healthy economy produces and equitably distributes the requisite goods and services for a society or nation, for its government.  

Freedom from want begins with the society’s economy.  But, a good economy is a construct of, dependent upon, good government.  In turn, a good government requires a good economy to support its programs.  A good government would construct the best possible economy for producing and equitably distributing the requisite goods and services, for supporting the government because a secure, healthy, well fed, well housed, well trained, well educated society with a stable government makes for a successful society or nation.  

A society or nation’s government and economy are inextricably linked.  Neither can succeed without the other.  Both are constructs.  A society or nation with a strong well constructed well functioning government working together with a strong well constructed well functioning economy is more likely to succeed. 

Elon Musk, that ultra-rich man with plans to dismantle the US Government, would likely be a poor man if he had immigrated to Haiti or Somalia instead of to the United States.