On October 4, 2013 at 15:05, ceied said...
I know i do not want 1/7 of the US economy or my healthcare in the hands of the government...
besides the military i cant think of anything the government does well...
Both statements I've heard on talk radio repeated I don't know how many times. It's bumper sticker intellectualism.
The government has been running 1/7th of the US Economy (more like 22%) in health care for a really long long time. It's called Medicare and Medicaid.
The military has it's problems with $: politicians wanting to spend billions on a very expensive fighter plane that the military doesn't want as one example. The military has had successes and failures. Do you recommend we let the private sector compete in warfare? We dabbled in that in Iraq, didn't seem to work out that well.
While it's easy and en vogue to complain about government 'not doing things well' it really doesn't mean anything. It's a feeling, a belief, but not a useful concept to initiate in problem solving.
But it really works well if you want to maintain the status quo. Then it's useful.
