"If I ran my business like the government, I'd be OUT OF BUSINESS!"
You know one aspect of BIG GOVERNMENT that should change and be run at a profit? The military! We outspend the next seven closest governments combined when it comes to the military. Well, that is what happens when you get the government controlling things!
We need to privatize the military. As it is now, not only is it socialist but it is choking on government regulation. This is because there is NO COMPETITION! If you privatize the military, the free market takes over. This country was built on free market capitalism. The military hemorrhages money and constantly has to ask for more from the government.
If we privatized the military and got free market capitalists involved, you would see armies run at a profit. Get the private sector involved!
George Washington- I think you know who he was- was against standing armies. He used to run a standing army so, I think he knew what he was talking about. In fact, the Second Amendment of our constitution allows for militias, saying nothing about standing armies. So, there you go. Exactly what part of "...shall not be infringed..." do you not understand, by the way?
Don't you think that, with their business expertise, companies like McDonalds, Walmart or JC Penny could operate armies or navies, not only at a profit (as God intended) but at a low cost to the consumer?
Back in Washington's day we had mom and pop militias. A lot of them started up to protect local areas and property from angry and or discontented property, known at the time as "slaves". Well, loooong story there but, businessmen ran militias to handle that problem. And they did really well until government got involved. We got away from all that. We need to get that back.
Goodness- if we can run prisons and healthcare at a profit, I think our private sector, entrepreneurial minds can run an army or two at a profit. It will create new jobs- as long as the tax breaks are there (business hires when they have extra money from not having to pay taxes- DUH!) and, with Obamacare and all, those jobs will mostly be part time jobs to get around that. But, that is how business works. The government failed to realize that. Military pensions are expensive! Private armies will offer a 401k plan for full-time employees instead. Those are practically foolproof, I should mention.
Just some thoughts here. I haven't worked out all the details. That's for better minds than mine! Not everything in life is meant to be run at a profit. I thought churches were and that they were doing well but they keep getting involved with politics and government. It's as if they want government to take them over! Weird!
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Nice, post, Ferrerman. It's a good thing nobody on Topix reads your blog, because then you'd be labeled unpatriotic. lol
byline: Deer Whisperer/Luke
Sorry Ferrerman. I can't help you out on details here. I've done some pondering after each of two times I read this.
I am trying to fight through the consistent melody/refrain of a Doobie Brothers song coursing in my gray matter and that's distracting.
Maybe a new generic term can be used for privatization of all things; contracting out more government jobs and projects than is already done now and has been so much for umpteen years. Maybe it takes a much larger threshold for the right-of-center to overcome their "government doesn't create jobs" mantra.
It must be generic to because it doesn't legally, officially exist as an entity in name anymore ... but it fills the bill for anything: wars, natural disasters, prisons, accounting, IT, hell name it.
Of course, little -- if any -- oversight should be done because that inhibits profits (unsavory practices too) and nothing about OSHA must be invoked; oops, what OSHA???
OH the jobs that will be created! No union, no minimum wage...
Hell, we should just 'black water' everything.
LOL, DW!! The Doobies, indeed. I mentioned this o Facebook and an old friend who is ex-military and still associated, shot me a link about private contractors. The pay is pretty damn good! Our military seems like it's a farm system for these contractors. It reminds me of the way pilots used to be. Get the military training and then the big bucks with United. Of course, now it's not like that as airline pilots are paid like bus drivers.
It is odd too that, with all the scare talk on the right about BIG GOVERNMENT and how the government "...should fear the people...", the GOP won't cut a nickle from military spending! Well, unless it's to fuck the veterans....
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