Ronald Reagan famously said: "The scariest words in the English language are 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help'"
He could not have been more wrong. If you want to know how wrong he really was - ask any of the survivors of Hurricane Katrina just how scary it was when they were so desperate to hear those words -and there was nobody to say them.
Ivo recently survived the great fire in Knysna - and he can thank a helpful government for that (that must really grind in his libertarian craw).
Go ask the people of Mozambique who still remember the great flood of 2000 what it was like - when governments did NOT show up to say "I'm here to help". South Africa showed up - but we didn't have that much to show up with. A single US carrier has more helicopters than our entire airforce. Imagine how many lives they could have saved if they had shown up.

It's easy to hate on government if you forget why we need it. But things like Katrina aren't rare. We'll ALL experience at least one.