Even with their stated goals of population reduction?
If the government isn't out to try to kill us, then why is it that virtually everything they do, works towards that outcome?
I agree with the rest of your post, but in this point, you need to reconsider just how much the government has your best interests at heart.
I think the government is a tool or a marionette. Someone or group is pulling the stings. They definitely want to move us to fro-feudal system that cannot be obtained when someone or something could amass a billion man army against it. So the question is not if the government but who above that. My personal opinion to that question is answered in my last sentence.