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Wars almost never go as planned (Vietnam, Iraq). All these do good agencies us liberals set up eventually wind up spending inefficient amounts of money and time justifying their existence, and can never be killed.



You are finally starting to figure out part of why government sucks.

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But it's not just Government! Deregulate the airlines? They took on a life of their own. How's that working out? Less environmental regulation and enforcement, and business will take care of itself? Took on a life of its own.



Private industry is often no better than government. But the thing is, it just seems to me Liberals often feel they have no other power as important as their vote. All those big politicians all over TV begging them to vote for them, it makes the Liberal feel empowered. But the thing is, you get to vote for one guy who's in charge of way too much. If you go down to the Social Security office and they screw up your retirement check, what you gonna do? Vote for somebody else? What's that gonna change?

The reason private industry is better is because individual businesses are more easily killed. I read an article back in high school that Michael Stipe wrote for Spin Magazine that was about what he called, "consumer advocacy". To this day I do things like at small locally owned restaurants, I pay in cash so they don't have to pay taxes if they don't want. To bigger things like being tired of AT&T and their hidden charges, so I wrote an article for a web site explaining how to easily use Google Voice and a SIP account to get free talk minutes on your mobile phone that I know a lot of people used. You have more power over private industry, that's the only reason it's better.