Should the government protect people or not?

In The Netherlands we have this weird policy since the late seventies: "Dead civilians don't pay a lot in taxes and sick civilians are not very productive". So the government takes measures to keep people healthy and alive. A few of those measures I wrote about earlier.

Keeping people save explains the fact there is no Dutch word for pothole; any civilian can report one starting and it gets fixed within a day or two.

Do you have a lot of potholes in your area? What's the government policy on them? Do you have a government like we have in The Netherlands or do you have a government that doesn't invest a lot in infrastructure and maintenance of structures like oil pipelines? Causing a rupture in the Keystone Oil Pipeline in North Dakota in april 2025.

The Trump administration also doesn't invest in language education. And it shows:

Should a government do its best to keep its people safe or do its best to gain more money and power for itself and its sponsors?

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