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Originally Posted by genuinegirly
Let's not forget these little government-run agencies...
5) US Forest Service / National Park System / Fish & Wildlife (Refuge system)
Have you looked recently at the vast amount of land they control?
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And they do a pretty good job at running these agencies at a reasonable cost. If they were privately held, there would have to be so many laws saying you couldn't do things to the land. No drilling, mining, renting, reselling, ranching, farming, blocking access, hunting, living, building, etc... The people would start complaining for sure because they didn't read the fine print and were expecting to become millionaires without doing anything somehow.
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Originally Posted by genuinegirly
6) United States Postal Service
Why do we still have a postal service? So we can get terrible advertisements sent to our door? UPS, FedEx, and DHL are more efficient.
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I can put a 44 cent stamp on a envelope, drop in in a box and it will get across the country. It is anonymous, untraceable, secret, and reliable. Sounds like a deal to me. Using a computer is a little quicker, but can't replace an actual letter sometimes. On-line bill-pay and e-mails have cut into the revenue of the post office a lot in the past few years.
(And the post office isn't run by the government, the government just made laws saying they had a monopoly on mail delivery and can control the prices)