It's not the government's role to:
Raise your kids
Build your homes
Construct your pipelines
Feed your kids
Fix your teeth
Buy your drugs
Change social mores
The role of the government is to get out of the way so citizens can do that for themselves.
And better.
@MarkJCarney No, please no. We need to be trimming the bureaucracy, not adding to it. And the government should never be in the business of trying to compete with developers.