All financial institutions to be run by the federal government.

[Kasz216]

Rath said:

TheRealMafoo said:

NJ5 said:

@TheRealMafoo: Are you sure no public funding went into phone or power networks?

 

 

Not sure any went into cell phone networks, but yea, they did.

The point is it's been proven that these things can be done without the government. We just think they can't, because (in out lifetime), they always have.

The federal government used to not pay for roads. Yet another entitlement they took upon themselves to provide for the people.

If the internet was run by the federal government, do you think it would be as robust and efficient as it is today? Hell no. Why can that logic not be applied to all mass networks?

I think the federal governments only roles should be to protect me while on the roads, and restricting where a road can go. So speed limits, quality requirements, and so forth should be applied, but private run roads would be like everything else. Cheeper and better.

The internet is actually a bit of a mess. Its neither robust nor efficient. Its a criss-crossing mesh of networks of various mediums and protocols, its by no means the most effecient design for a larger internetwork, just the most convenient =P. While I agree that the government is often inefficient I wouldn't put the internet down as a counter example of effeciency.

Also just to make my case, I think roading, healthcare, education, the judiciary, the central bank, the government, the emergency services, the defence forces and probably a bunch of other services I can't think of off of the top of my head should be in the public sector not the private sector.

 

@Kasz. Life expectancy alone doesn't show that the healthcare is worse in Scotland. There may be cultural issues with health. Afterall we are talking about the people who invented deep fried pizza, deep fried ice cream and deep fried mars bars.

Oh I very much agree Rath.  However if you read this thread you'll note my oponents have been consistantly shooting down the cultural factors argument in defense of life expectancy being a reason medical care  the US is so bad.  Despite the fact that there are many cultural factors.  If someone is going to cling to a flawed method and I can still prove my point through that method I will as it gives little room for argument.

Also I could always quote National Health studies that prove Scotland Hospitals are worse... i'm just being lazy.

I've done a lot of research on Healthcare as I want a working fair system.