There is also a need to create more opportunities for all of us to be able to earn enough to be the primary providers of our own health care, housing and food needs not only whole working but in retirement as well. We also have a personal responsibility to know how to lead healthy lives what to eat, how to exercise and sleep so we will lessen our need for health care and be in a better position to fight the effects of diseases including cancer. As a free people we should be willing and able to take on more responsibility for our own welfare and be dependent on government mainly for defense against foreign enemies and terrorists with weapons of mass destruction and for recovery from and survial during and after large scale natural disasters.  The less demands we make on government the fewer taxes governments will have to collect. The federal government alone has $20 trillion deficit, the best way to lower it is to make fewer demands on government .