what are citizens for?
Citizens are taxpayers — the primary income source of the federal government. Citizens provide free money to bail out big banking companies who do stupid things like lend billions of dollars to people who can’t pay it back. But the banks don’t worry — government will buy up all those bad loans and they can go on with business as usual, and continue paying their smart guys seven-figure salaries. The government may have to cut services to pay for the bailout, but hey, those services are just for people who aren’t smart enough to make seven-figure salaries.
Listen to the investors whine: government is bad when it tells them they can’t do risky things with other people’s money, but government is good when it bails them out of the consequences of those risky activities.
Oh yes, citizens also are useful to send overseas to spill their guts for cheap access to oil.