On May 27, 11:06*am, Mac Cool wrote:
HeyBub:

Ah, but here's where your logic fails: There is no enterprise, health
care, education, etc., that cannot be done cheaper and better by
private industry.

Give me some examples, education and health care for starters.

In the case of education, you only need to look at private schools
versus public schools. Which is producing a better product in terms
of educated students. In areas where vouchers have been implemented
so that parents can decide whether to send their children to public
schools or use the voucher for private schools, the results have been
the private schools are doing a far better job. Such a good job that
the NEA does everything it can to block any use of school vouchers.
Now, if they are doing as good a job as the private schools, why are
they in favor of school vouchers?

In the case of public healthcare, take a look at the fraud going on in
Medicare/Medicaid. It's been widely reported that about 1/3 of all
claims in Florida are bogus. There are clinics all over the place
that are listed in the phone book, turning in hundreds of thousands in
bogus claims a month. And the place actually consists of an empty
building, with maybe one desk and a phone. 60 minutes went with
investigators to several of them in a story they did about it. They
showed an old lady who for the past 6 years has been calling Medicare
to report bogus items showing up on her account: wheelchairs, beds,
walkers. They interviewed another man who was billed through
Medicare for two prosthetic arms for tens of thousands of dollars, yet
his arms are intact.

Don;t believe me? Ask Obama. One of his most remarkable claims for
funding his new healthcare was that he was gonna recover billions in
waste and fraud from Medicare/Medicaid. Only in America. Anywhere
else, the logical response would be, "you idiot, if the govt can't run
those, how are you gonna run an even bigger boondoggle?