Government responsibilities

Different Governments have different control and different roles in the country.
In a Communistic country the leader is generally born into power. There is one ruler, meaning that it is a dictatorship. The governments responsibility in a Communistic government is everything. The government controls everything in the country; natural resources, money, laws, trade, ect. Also in a Communistic country there are no taxes because the government takes all of the people money and distributes it evenly among the people. They also control the money you get for retirement.
In a mixed economy like the U.S. the government has different roles. The officials are elected in and generally are run by a democracy. The government responsibility is to protect the people, make and enforce laws, regulate trade, control various natural resources, relations between other countries, and the minimum education of students. Taxes are based on ones income. The government decided how much and how the taxes will be collected from you. You generally have to manage your own retirement plan though. The government does use social security but you don't know how long that will last so it is good to have money saved or have a 401k plan just  in case.     

December 20% time

In December I was able to accomplish a lot for my twenty percent time. I measure my progress by the amount of time I spent on the project and the amount of stories I was able to gain. I was able to gain at least one story per category on my website. My website is also almost done. All I have to do is figure out how to hyper link all of my pages together. I have a lack of website skills so I don't how to do things like hyperlinking so it takes me longer to learn how to do those things and apply them to my site. However, I am learning and asking for help with it.  

Natural Resources

In different government systems the government and people have different things that they can control. This goes out to all the aspects of the country including natural resources. In the two government types listed below, Communism and Mixed Economy, here is who can control each natural resource. The country I chose to represent Communism is China and the government system I chose to represent a mixed economy is the United States.
Communism:
Oil- Government
Natural Gas- Government
Water- Government
Solar- Government
Wind- Government
Timber- Government
Minerals- Government
Coal- Government
People- Government
Mixed Economy:
Oil- Company
Natural Gas- People
Water- Government
Solar- People
Wind- People/ Company
Timber- Government
Minerals- Government
Coal- Company/ Government
People- People
In a mixed economy some of the people have more control but it depends if they own the land they want to harness the natural resources on or not. If the Government owns the land then they control the natural resources. In a Mixed Economy the people and companies have more control as to a Communist country where the Government controls everything.