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The USPS is, or was once regarded, one of the big successes of American public enterprise. It might not be as highly regarded anymore as it used to be but it was a godsend for people living in rural areas, and they will still get your mail from point A to point B anywhere in the country relatively cheaply. Another true story is utilities, without public enterprise there would probably still be large swaths of the country without electricity because it's not economically worth running miles of lines to serve a few customers. Basically anything that should (or shouldn't) be done but isn't economically viable isn't going to happen in a capitalist system without public intervention, that includes saving Yosemite from logging. The anti-government people are just as far off in a dreamland utopia as the extreme socialists. I would agree that some things that aren't economically viable and shouldn't be done are, but it's worth the tradeoff. If not, something that you probably need would be neglected too. As a former customer of public utilities and a current customer of private utilities I can't tell you any difference except now I'm constantly bombarded with PG&E ad campaigns. Same 120V @60 Hz coming out of the wall.
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"Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded." --Abraham Lincoln
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