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Quote by: lsbskins1  The government is not a "for profit" entity. Most of the services the government provides are prone to being "in the red" opperations. |
But the vast bureaucracy favored by the Statists offers nothing but negative side effects.
Theft, power usurpation, criminal conduct, unaccountability, all the things you say are rampant in the private sector have never been worse than they are now, under government control.
This is why welfare state problems should be handled through charities, and philanthropic ventures rather than government.
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Quote by: lsbskins1 You can't put an Army in the field and make money on the enterprise. |
Hmmm, isn't that a bad example on your part, as that exaclty what you Liberals claim Bush is doing?
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Quote by: lsbskins1 The benefits are not directly monetary. In the long term, big picture they mostly are, but not on a year to year speadsheet basis. It costs real money to buy school books. You do not get direct return. What you get is a literate populace that creates greater productivity for private enterprise. The government almost always "looses", but society gains. Private enterprise looks at those year to year speadsheets and tries to limit those costs, ignoring the long term gains. You need to get out of the "what does it cost me NOW" blinders and start thinking of things in long term, indirect gains. |
I know you can always come up with reasons to coerce my money from me, but how about actually supporting some of those contentions for once.
The governments been involded in this since FDR, and the problems just keep getting worse.
As far as my knowledge of history goes, the Welfare State is a proven failure. Why do you continue to believe otherwise? ( I know it's really just your Liberal agenda, but I'm hoping you plan on actually supporting some of your contentions. )