If ALL the government did was mandate safe housing codes and common sense things (you have to have standards, and weights and measures) I would have MUCH less of a problem with it...
The actual Civil Defense programs of the 60’s, when they made Geiger counters available and so on, were *good* and relatively cheap government spending. You’d get manuals and discounted emergency kits and so on.
Long ago now.. The hardware they made though back then is still mostly usable, I have a lot of CD geigers as both collectibles and user items and they still work well after 50+ years!