I've been all about the blogosphere on a number of issues (most recently the overplayed Hurricane Katrina) asking this simple question, and NO ONE has ventured any attempt to answer in a reasonable fashion (or an unreasonable one, for that matter):

Again, I ask (and I still haven't gotten a reasonable answer) - Why do people make this stupid assumption that the federal government - a necessary evil at best and an intolerable one at worst - must be the solution to everyone's problems and the source of everyone's happiness?