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akuma587 on 26 November 2008
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TheRealMafoo said:
akuma587 said:

Just like when the government decided to deregulate the health insurance market across a number of states, like Texas, and rates skyrocketed?  Damn that government involvement!  The government should get involved way less often!

And note, I wasn't talking about Obama's healthcare plan.  I think there are better ways to do universal healthcare than Obama is proposing, but the American public is still pretty resistant to true universal healthcare.

 

 

There is a huge difference between the government regulating something, and the government running something.

When you give money to the US government for the purposes of providing a service, the level of efficiency is orders of magnitude lower than the private sector. Find me one example where that is not true.

 

So should we get rid of all our police and firemen and hire out private companies to fulfill those roles instead?

We could scrap out military too and just hire other countries to fight our wars for us too.  I mean the government obviously can do nothing right, so why should we let them do anything at all?  That is what you are advocating right?

We should get rid of public schools too and have an all private school system.  If you can't afford school, then it looks like you are just out of luck.

We should cut off government funding to universities too.  And we should cut off government funding to hospitals too to reimburse them for some of their costs.

And screw allowing them to plan out our roads for us.  We should let the private sector do that too.  I mean the government is just full of worthless bureaucrats who care about themselves.  Lets let the private sector do it too!

I mean the government just does nothing right, so why should we even HAVE government at all!

 

 



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