Better for all, Capitalism or Socialism?

[SamuelRSmith]

Well, you did what I said you would.

And you know what my biggest problem with your rebuttals were: I honestly don't think what you're saying will be what will happen.

Sure, it's a cop-out argument, I know that, but I honestly think that what would happen in the real world would be much more similar to what I posted then what you did.

And I think this simply because over Government's have tried it before with different programmes. Our Government, for example, tried this system with the railways. The firms who won the bids then went on to cost-cut and do other things to keep it as cheap as possible to increase a) their profits, b) they're likelihood of contract renewal.

The result? Trains coming off the tracks. There were several train crashes causing death and pain. The Government had to go back to maintaining the railways themselves.

Or what about what happened with Bolivia? Where are a private firm won the rights to water treatment. Once they got the contract, they tripled the prices of the water, and no one could afford the stuff! Sure, it's slightly different, but it's still shows that the private sector cannot be trusted with services where people's lives are at stake.

And, no, I don't know what health insurance is like. I don't need to know, I'll never need health insurance in my lifetime.