Reply #22: The private sector sees government as a cash cow. [View All]

[Mountainman]

When we give contracts to private industry the meme is that competition will lower costs but just the opposite happens. Take Halliburton for example. No bid contract and what ever they charge we pay. The military use to do much of what Halliburton is doing at much less the cost to the tax payer.

Privatizing government services is the repub way if enriching their supporters. Repubs are hypocrites when it comes to this. They lower taxes on corporations then give them access to the federal treasury while the working class pays for it all.

The better system is to tax everyone and let the government provide the services hiring Americans to do the work. Actually I think that government should compete with private industry such as in alternative energy development. I would like to see the government build fuel efficient cars that were affordable thus forcing the industry to do the same. I would like to see the government build affordable housing thus forcing industry to do the same.

The government should take care of all it's people not just the wealthy. Don't ever let a right winger tell you that government shoud not be in the business of providing entitlements. Just look at who got the trillions of dollars of spending over the last 5 years. Social services were cut while payments to repub contributors became enormous. Repuke use ideology as an opiate for the faithful while they rob the treasury.