Stormin Mormon wrote:
Please understand, if I am a bit disbelieving of you. My
experience wtih government programs is that they grow more
complicated every year. My experience with things that have
no competition, is that they rapidly increase price, and
rapidly lose quality.

That's a gross overstatement! Government programs shrink and disappear all
the time.

The last was just the other day: The Civil Aeronautics Administration was
subsumed by the FAA in 1958.