Government is incapable of running a solvent buisness (health care, financial, retire)

[jimhcom]

Originally Posted by Back to NE

Poor context...

In a related story, MLB umpire incapable of throwing 100 mph fastball.

For your analogy to make sense it would need to read; "Federal Government passes legislation to force MLB to hire blind umpires. The new legislation coined Obamaball will ensure equal access for all people to Major League Sports, and will not alter the quality of the game in any way."

[AdrianPetersonRules]

Originally Posted by jimhcom

THE GREAT POSTAL FRAUD « The Burning Platform

This article points out how despite the lies of government cheerleaders, most of whom are on the government dole that government is incapable of running any business without it becoming a liability to the taxpayers.
In addition the really scary pathetic truth is that government is no more competent at running an education system as it is at running a business.

Government was never intended to be run like a business.

[jimhcom]

Originally Posted by AdrianPetersonRules

Government was never intended to be run like a business.

Your argument Is nonsensical.

When the government expands its operations to include business like enterprises, it has every obligation to run those enterprises exactly like a business. They are using the taxpayer’s money to fund those enterprises and have a fiduciary responsibility to manage these enterprises with best business practices in order to ensure the taxpayers are getting the goods and services they are paying for.

If they are incapable of providing goods or services to the public as efficiently as private business can provide, then they need to cease their enterprise and contract those goods and services out to contractors that can provide them at a better value to the taxpayers.

[OhioRules]

Originally Posted by Chimuelojones

What services are you lacking? Do you have roads to your home, clean drinking water, an oil lamp, do you have a out house? Do you burn your garbage?...ect.

You do know your list to defend government is of stuff provided by capitalists . lols.

[Vejadu]

There's nothing that the Government does better or more efficiently than the private business equivalent. Business uses profit and competition to maximize efficiency -- they have to, otherwise they go out of business (unless the Government meddles to save a company that should have gone bankrupt).

Government agencies have no incentive to operate efficiently, nor do they have any real competition, so it baffles me that there are some who want to put more and more of our lives in the hands of the government. We've seen how horribly the DMV or the court systems operate; we've seen our schools churn out hundreds of thousands of functionally illiterate graduates, we've seen the abysmal failures of the USPS and Amtrak, so who in their right mind thinks the government will run healthcare well, when they've proven to be failures at so many previous ventures?

[jimhcom]

Originally Posted by Vejadu

There's nothing that the Government does better or more efficiently than the private business equivalent. Business uses profit and competition to maximize efficiency -- they have to, otherwise they go out of business (unless the Government meddles to save a company that should have gone bankrupt).

Government agencies have no incentive to operate efficiently, nor do they have any real competition, so it baffles me that there are some who want to put more and more of our lives in the hands of the government. We've seen how horribly the DMV or the court systems operate; we've seen our schools churn out hundreds of thousands of functionally illiterate graduates, we've seen the abysmal failures of the USPS and Amtrak, so who in their right mind thinks the government will run healthcare well, when they've proven to be failures at so many previous ventures?

[Weichert]

TVA is well run.

[NHartphotog]

Originally Posted by OhioRules

Yep. Government has no profit/loss motive like a private business.

This is what makes them completey inefficient. I doubt there is one government program that pays for itself.

Government programs can't possibly "pay for themselves" because their income is simply confiscated from American taxpayers.

[BigJon3475]

Originally Posted by Weichert

TVA is well run.

Isn't that interesting? So the government can run a corporation that is required to run a balanced budget as a nonprofit and all the while it does it without taxes funding it.

Hopefully your point wasn't to say that the current government, and democrats in particular, would have any part of that.

[ellemint]

Originally Posted by jimhcom

THE GREAT POSTAL FRAUD « The Burning Platform

This article points out how despite the lies of government cheerleaders, most of whom are on the government dole that government is incapable of running any business without it becoming a liability to the taxpayers.
In addition the really scary pathetic truth is that government is no more competent at running an education system as it is at running a business.

I disagree 100 %.

It is the private companies that have relied on the government to bail them out when their greed and mismanagement threatened to take them out, whether it was the automotive industry or financial banking criminals.

Did you know that in the great bailout of the Great Recession, one corporation alone, AIG, got more than $150 billion--more than was spent on welfare to the poor from 1990 to 2006?

(The U.S. federal government spent about $140 billion on TANF between 1990 to 2006.)

Not to mention that even big oil would not be able to function without being able to buy up government land for pennies and exploit and poison our land and skies while they rake in profits. Easy to make billions when you don't have to pay for the mess you create or the people you literally kill with the poisons your company spews into the air and water.

Not to mention that dozens of the biggest corporations pay zero to little corporate taxes because they shelter their profits overseas. Again, easy to make a profit when you're gouging the country of taxes you owe.

You and I and every other taxpayer are subsidizing big companies.