Chris, We have thousands of bridges and other government constructions that are seriously under-maintained. You have thousands of patients who are all right so long as the hospitals don't run out of corridors to store them.
That's a good argument against government. Thanks Chris. I am as much against privatization as you probably are. What is needed is competition. The reason why government operations are so inefficient is because of the lack of competition. Now we know about safety factors, I think we will prefer a building with a high safety factor. This is certainly a sales point post 9-11. I understand that the twin towers were built to withstand a plane hitting them. That is, a 707. Now planes are bigger and heavier. In a free market, you'll chose your safety factor. I suppose you'll do the same thing when buying a car. You really do have a thing about CEOs. These are people who can run giant corporations. If it's so good, why don't you become one? It's a premium position requiring special talent - so it gets well-paid. Should it not be well paid? A baseball player signed a deal today. Over the next 7 years he'll get $120 million. He doesn't even have to run a corner store. Chris wrote: >Keith Hudson wrote: > > Present-day architects and builders cannot build to safety factors of 10, > > or even 5, because the buildings would be too expensive and would never > > produce a profit. > >That's a good argument against privatization. Thanks Keith :-) > > > > The typical legislatures of developed countries, > > disproportionately consisting of lawyers and, more recently, "professional" > > politicians who have never had ordinary jobs (or even executive jobs in > > business), are completely unrepresentative of the jobs and experience of > > the population at large. They are as distant and removed from the > > conditions and worries of ordinary people as a Chinese Emperor. > >...as is the typical CEO. But you seem to think/suggest that the >corporatization of politics is a good thing. > > > > We need a totally new sort of governmental system. Perhaps it is already > > evolving. Today, we are seeing the powerful emergence of pressure groups of > > all sorts, public and private, large and small, self-seeking and > > altruistic, national and international. > >What we see is the growing influence of *corporate* pressure/PR/lobby groups >-- so badly that even in supposedly altruistic NGOs (environmental/social/ >patient organizations), the greedheads are taking over --, so that the >public interests are being trampled more and more. Is that the kind of >revolution that we want ? Rather the contrary... > >Chris ****************************** Harry Pollard Henry George School of LA Box 655 Tujunga CA 91042 Tel: (818) 352-4141 Fax: (818) 353-2242 *******************************
