> Meanwhile, in terms of education, medicine, and pretty much everything > else, > "public run" is a synonym for crappy and busted.
You can select an equal number of targets where "privatized" implies an equal quagmire. > The magic of market forces has nothing at all to do with hoping people act > for > the good of the whole. That is a strawman argument, for over 200 years > ago it > was explained "It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, > or > the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own > interest. " Yes, but this isn't the end-all, and even P.J. O'Rourke, who recently wrote _On The Wealth of Nations_, will quickly admit that Smith actually wasn't a huge fan of the marketeering class. Smith is also quoted as saying that merchants never get together, even for recreation, without their conversations turning to how to extort the public. > So when was the last American government that wasn't corrupt? Do you look > back > to the days of JFK? FDR? Lincoln? How many of your good leaders do we get > each > century? How is that working out for you? You know the definition of > insanity. This is hollow rhetoric, as was your first paragraph. There's a litany of the corruptions of the private sector, too, and it rarely was through competition or boycott that they were halted. -- Rhett. http://www.weatherlight.com/greentime http://www.weatherlight.com/freetime
