<p>Assignment: Should people take more responsibility to solve problems in their communities </p>
<p>Every government strives to bring happiness and prosperity to their people. However, their effort is often taken for granted. The more government offers, the more we demand. The government solves our problems, but creates a long-term one: loss of independence and self-sufficiency. Therefore, we should take more responsibility for our community.
In the 1970s, the Vietnamese communist government decided to take over all economical aspects of the country. It nationalized all farms and factories in order to provide all goods and divided them equally amongst everyone. Before, the people had grown their own crops, but now, they were provided with food without working at all. Thus, many lost the motivation to work. The people who were capable of sustaining their lives became overly dependent on the government. At the end of the decade, the new work force did not acquire any experience from their predecessors. Vietnamese economy hits rock bottom. Necessities were underprovided. This marked the major downfall of the communist economical system. The government undermined the people ability to take care of themselves and others. It is impossible for the government a government, whose resources may be vast but limited, to answer the need o everyone.
The English government is making a similar mistake. Because of many consecutive recessions, England has raised unemployment benefits. More people become reluctant to find jobs as all of their costs are paid for. In addition, the government even provided subsidies to various companies to bring the economy back on its feet. Companies become more willing to make riskier business decisions and operate even more inefficiently than before. They believe that the government will help them whenever a financial crisis occurs. As a result, after even 2 years, the English economy has never recovered. If the government had left more economical responsibility to the people, recovery would have been much quicker. The unemployed would be frantically searching for jobs. Companies would use their profit to increase efficiency instead of relying to government subsidies. The government should have let the economy helped itself.
From the two examples above, we see that people should hold more responsibility to solve the problem of their community. Sometimes, doing nothing is the best governmental decision.</p>