In no relation to other countries you are correct. While I don't think our government is good for nothing, it is run poorly. It is easily influenced by business in bending rules and supporting big business before the people. Also (personal opinion) it's budget is tremendously misaligned. The amount of money put into the military opposed to schools is terrible. It is one thing to have the largest military budget but ours far exceeded the next closest country's budget. In addition our management of the healthcare system is done very poorly and it needs to start with the exorbitant costs coming from pharmaceutical manufacturers - look at oncology costs and the uproar happening there, look at hep c, etc. While I am not saying we want to be a socialist society, there are some businesses that involve lives and need to be treated as such. It goes beyond Healthcare and even touches our regulations that are bent in order to allow fracing by the gas industry. If you haven't watched, I highly recommend gasland.

I am not discounting your statement because you are correct the US does a lot of good, but it definitely isn't run correctly. I don't know for sure if there is a government that does it very well but Sweden those sort of countries appear to do a decent job.

We need to hold businesses accountable. The two party system is terribly flawed.