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Originally Posted by HappyTexan
Actually they might get done now and for less money using private companies. If they don't do the work they get fired and a new firm gets hired. It's called "competition".
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Private companies don't usually work for less money, boss; they work for a profit (compare Blackwater salaries to those of our taxpayer-funded U.S. troops). The idea that we should just outsource government agencies to privately-held corporations is one of the biggest examples of b.s. in the debate over what to do about the deficit.
For one thing the whole notion that a deficit is a horrible thing is itself a flawed premise. A deficit, and even some debt, is not bad; it's what governments do - they spend money on externalities that are not accounted for or deemed not worth spending money on by the private sector.
I don't mean to be an ass, but I really am irritated that we've got politicians manipulating this issue because they don't want tax cuts for the rich, while we have other politicians who are terrified of being voted out of office because they realize now that the average voter doesn't have any idea how their own economy works. The media doesn't seem interested in educated people, and even if they did, nobody watches anything like PBS because it's too 'boring.' This is a pathetically imbecilic society we're creating for ourselves, and we're going to be like a giant, diseased retarded mouse that can't even find its way out of a paper bag.
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