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Government and Business
03.05.04 (11:09 am)   [edit]
In a moment of mental clarity I realized the our Government is a business. Not just influenced by outside corporations but a true business. We are the customers. Granted this analogy is far from perfect. As customers we are required to pay for services through taxes. We can't easily shop around for another Government to fulfill our Ruling needs. (We can but that requires movement of home and hearth.) And many of the Services we don't want to pay for or use.


Ironically our Government as a business is a monopoly and is a perfect example why our Government policies are anti-monopoly. Our Government is bloated, wasteful of resources, poorly managed, and often times provides crappy customer service. If our Government were a true business it've gone belly-up long ago. But unlike most businesses it has a Military to make sure it's not going out of business.


What if our Government could be privatized or outsourced? I'm surprised the Republicans haven't jumped on this as a means to shrink Government and send money to their friends who'd be the likely recipients. Shouldn't have said it...Bad Mahatma.

 


posted by: therealspartacus007 (reply)
post date: 03.05.04 (11:25 am)

Exactly right- the difference between the Government and a legitimate business is that no one is forced to trade with a legitimate business at the point of a gun.

Governments have a proper role when they protect and defend our rights, not when they try and determine the values (any kinds of values) of the people.

Outsourcing or privatizing government has been a popular idea in Anarchistic circles, but no one has come up with a working model that doesn't result in martial law.

The best way is to have a Bill of Rights that strictly limits the government. Since that is only a piece of paper, we must be ever vigilant against the actions of the government, a job Bush and Kerry hope we don't do.

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