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kma -- i'm going to attempt to reply to all of your statements without quoting as to avoid overly long entries, sorry in advance if i miss something.
the idea that government never manages anything better than the private sector can is an opinion, i happen to feel otherwise. I'm not going to attempt to argue that the private sector might produce produces a cheaper product -- i think arguments against this can be made but I find them somewhat pointless, when people's lives are at stake I don't want the cheapest product, i want the best product. I think that there are institutes where profit should not be the main motivator. I don't want the fire dept distracted by how much money they'll be making if they put out my house fire. I don't want educators worrying about how much profit teaching my child could bring in and i don't want health care professionals worry about weather saving my life is worth it from an economic stand point. I think people in general deserve a right to safety, education and good health regardless of economic status and I worry that when such institutes are privatized their function becomes a secondary concern after profit. the advantage of government institutions is that profit is not a main motivator. note that I am not arguing that the private sector won't give us a cheaper product, they probably would, but i feel that the product will be lesser in quality and not universally available. I think we can see this in the health care programs that we have now.
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