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Would you like to be on the run from the FBI or the CIA? No, me either. If you were surrounded by hostile forces, who would you call before dialing up the Marines? Would you choose to be protected by any military on Earth before that of the United States? No, I didn't think so. Are you going to bet against the National Health Institute having financed the next Nobel Prize winning medical research? No, not that either. Read More
Govt runs CIA
Yeah, the CIA still hasn't tracked down that guy with the beard, and thanks for that report about the WMD's...
Good job running Amtrack and the Post Office guys! Let's see how we will do running GM...
nonsense
Note that this side of the argument doesn't say that everything the government runs is wonderful, we just dispute that the government is inherently inept and can't run anything. They run several programs very well. Hence, they are capable of running things well. To offer examples like you do misses the point.
Especially when your examples are so lame. Post Office? You can send a piece of paper from Fairbanks, Alaska to Miami, Florida in a few days for 30 cents (more or less -- I don't know what a stamp costs these days). They almost never lose your letter. They'll bring it to your house, way the hell out in the middle of noplace -- free. Some places, they'll fly your mail to you. And you're griping about that? Come on.
As for finding the bearded one, that might have something to do with voters stupid enough to vote for politicians who hate government. What's up with that? Do you choose doctors who hate medicine, too? Do you elect a sheriff who thinks law enforcement is silly? Maybe the guy you hire to clean the pool is a big fan of algae?
Makes no sense to me.
I conceed your point ...
For that matter, if you wanted to learn something about the preshistoric origens of sexuality, would you read the blog of somebody who never writes about it?
On analogy
I would like to point out that that's the most ridiculous analogy I've ever heard concerning the topic.
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Sleep in late... pay taxes... clear out the brush what the fu..*continuous incomprehensible blubbering*
Seeing as one of the previous
Seeing as one of the previous posters can't quote the price of a stamp (or be bothered to look it up while writing his comment - 44¢) I can't believe he has much experience actually working with the Post Office, other than to receive "Yes, We Can!" propaganda and other junk mail. I have hit or miss luck with the P.O. (just had yet another package, a birthday gift nonetheless, go astray), and as the former mail-girl for my old job, I can say how time consuming and difficult it can be to receive help sometimes at the Government run institution. (Also, making the statement that your mail is delivered for free, right after mentioning the incorrect price of a postage stamp is just silliness - no, it's not much to ship a piece of paper, but the price goes up rather quickly for other types of delivery). If the Post office was the be-all, end-all of the shipping universe, UPS, FedEx and DHL, by the rules of survival of the fittest would be out of business. Since they are all still in business, I can't credit the P.O., as hard as they may try, with being the best there is to offer.
The main problem of the Post Office, the military, and any other Federally run offices is simple: bureaucracy. How many times ahve you been told to fill out a form again, to make sure it's in triplicate, to make sure it's notarized before someone will actually LOOK at it? And that's what Big Government Health Care will be like. Files, forms, review boards, waiting lines, being on hold on the phone, waiting 6 months for a doctor's appointment and the like - look at every other country with Big Government Health Care.
You have millions of people paid to shuffle papers, files and now emails from one end of a building to another - duplicate jobs, inconsistent command chains, people who have jobs because someone owes them a favor... Too many chefs in the kitchen ruins to soup. You have too many people with their hands in ANY project, it will be poorly executed - as the number of people involved in a project increases from the 3, the harder it is to get anything done - listen to people who have trouble with their Medicare - it's baloney for the medical practitioners to deal with Medicare, to get paid for the treatments they are allowed to provide, and it's baloney for seniors to find what they actually ARE covered for.
I'm not saying health insurance does not need reform - I'm saying more bureaucracy is not the way to streamline and make it easier, more affordable or more accessible. People who, unlike Congress, have actually read the bill, can see it will have the opposite effect.
"Hope," by itself does not lead to change, AND not all change is good. Hoping that a 1,000 page bill will fix things won't do it, especially if people we pay with our tax money can't be bothered to read it because it's too long. Who wrote it, then and made it too long?
P.S.
As for the Armed Forces, the individual soldiers serving freely of their own volition are probably among the first to agree that the actual government is full of wasted jobs, money and programs. At least that was my experience as an Army brat growing up in with my father serving in Washington, D.C. He was far from happy about the useless bureaucracy in the Pentagon, which I'm sure trickled down from the Executive and Legislative branches of our government.
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