talk.politics.misc

Bill Bonde ( 'Hi ho' ) wrote:

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> Jeffrey Turner wrote:
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>>Bill Bonde ( 'Hi ho' ) wrote:
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>>>Jeffrey Turner wrote:
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>>>>Bill Bonde ( 'Hi ho' ) wrote:
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>>>>>Hugh Gibbons wrote:
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>>>>>>"Bill Bonde ( 'Hi ho' )" wrote:
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>>>>>>>The whole Democrat party argument is social spending good. Democrats
>>>>>>>want to nationalize health care, how much would that cost?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Somewhat less than our present hodgepodge of privately and
>>>>>>publicly paid health care.
>>>>>
>>>>>Why not have the government bake our bread? You health care socialists
>>>>>can never answer that.
>>>>
>>>>Why not have them catch crooks or protect us from external enemies?
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>>>I think that's what they do do. The question then becomes what things
>>>should be run by government and what things are better left to private
>>>enterprise. Why should the police be part of the government and the
>>>bread makers not?
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>>Bread seems to do all right in private hands. Healthcare and policing
>>do not.
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> But what is different about policing and bread? One obvious difference
> is that policing covers everyone all the time.

Are you suggesting that healthcare shouldn't?

> Bread you can divide down
> to the instance of bread you are thinking you might need.

Everyone needs food, but we allow for different tastes. While there are
refinements of technique, everyone who needs a tonsillectomy is going to
get the same basic operation.

> You can't do
> that with a cop walking down the street, how'd you pay him? It would be
> like in Ancient Rome where they'd send out the private fire department
> which would put out your house fire only if you paid them a huge fee,
> otherwise they'd buy the ruins and the land off you for a song.

I believe we had private fire departments in the . in the early
1800s, also with disastrous consequences.

--Jeff

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