 ILpt4UPremium
join:2006-11-12
Lisle, IL
kudos:4 | reply to chronoss2009
Re: The CIA/FBI is happy now So the Gov't can run a very successful company in Google, yet they have no chance running a successful health insurance program?
Gov'ts don't have a great history of running successful private companies... |
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join:2001-04-17
Addison, IL | said by ILpt4U 
Gov'ts don't have a great history of running successful private companies...
[/BQUOTE : but companies have had great success running the government. |
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ILpt4UPremium
join:2006-11-12
Lisle, IL
kudos:4 | THAT bit of information I will not refute... |
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It depends on what you call a 'company'. Look at the Interstate Highway System, Rural Electrification, Military. All of those are 'companies', and are run very well. The government is good at running things 'too big' for anyone else. The goverment SHOULD own all the copper/fiber, and rent it out to anyone who wants to sell the service. The advantage of that, is that EVERYONE would get fiber to the home, and broadband prices would be much closer to Japan (100mb/sec for $20.00/month) vs what we get now. Let the government run health care. I firmly believe that health care, housing, food are all BASIC human rights, and you can't ever outsource basic rights to for profit companies, because by definition, the corporation is NOT working for the customer, it's working for the shareholders.
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The happiest countries are the most secular. The struggle AGAINST corporations is the struggle FOR humanity! |
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ILpt4UPremium
join:2006-11-12
Lisle, IL
kudos:4 | Aye Komrad!
One might dispute that the Eisenhower Interstate System of Defense Highways are really that well run & maintained, but in general, good points made |
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said by karlmarx:I firmly believe that health care, housing, food are all BASIC human rights, and you can't ever outsource basic rights to for profit companies, because by definition, the corporation is NOT working for the customer, it's working for the shareholders. So by that logic the gov't should also pay for my house and all my food. Funny that you would choose two things the gov't doesn't pay for as reasoning why they should pay for the third. |
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