when did we realize the government was not limiting us?
Whenever flop happens, then you continue to see the way people begin to shift the blame on the government being responsible for their misfortune, whereas we are expected to take charge for ourself and build capacity to be able to withstand what is ahead, if we truly wish to know and do the needful, then we must be willing to take full responsibility for our self and others around us, because the government cannot be there for everyone, they may only try their best, but we also have our own quota to do, when we don't sit to fold hands waiting for the government to take steps.
If everyone can take responsibility of their own life's it becomes easier for the government to provide their regulatory role effectively and even though for some reasons government may seems over stepping their boundaries and taking away the actual right from citizens but this happens whenever their is high corruption in the system but not when the government is working effectively, citizens make up the government that is democracy for you, it was meant to serve the need of the people through the collective efforts of all.