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From: Charles Lindbergh <spirit@stlouis.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Tories resent the poor.
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Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2014 19:33:44 +0000
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On Wed, 8 Oct 2014 19:12:59 +0100, "Ian Field" <gangprobing.alien@ntlworld.com>
wrote:
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>"Charles Lindbergh" <spirit@stlouis.invalid> wrote in message
>news:hbpa3aplaas1nt7e2l8lh58r8jht5ilg78@4ax.com...
>> On Wed, 08 Oct 2014 16:04:55 GMT, Moi <moi@here.now> wrote:
>>
>>>On Tue, 07 Oct 2014 20:05:29 +0000, Charles Lindbergh wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I can appreciate your frustration, but do you really believe your
>>>> government could run things any better? Right now, you are not
>>>> subsidizing these industries with your taxes. If they were still under
>>>> government control, don't you think they would operate at a loss and
>>>> require taxpayer subsidy? If you never took the train, wouldn't you
>>>> resent having to subsidize those who do use them?
>>>>
>>>> Honestly, I can't think of anything that any government runs better than
>>>> private industry, can you?
>>>
>>>The British Government still subsidizes the privatized rail service.
>>>
>>>In 2013 the rail companies received UKP 4 billion, and paid out 200
>>>million UK pounds to shareholders.
>>>
>>>Part of the UK rail system (Northern rail) is part-owned by the a
>>>subsidiary of the Dutch state-owned company Abellio. It's been announced
>>>today that theycompany has won the contract to run Scots Rail from next
>>>April.
>>
>> And yet, with all this government involvement the rail system still runs
>> like
>> crap.
>>
>>>
>>>The mail service is an example of a government running a better industry
>>>that a private company. As are the armed forces, police service & a
>>>national health service.
>>
>> In the USA, FedEx and UPS operate far more efficiently then our US postal
>> service which is on the verge of insolvency. We have an outstanding armed
>> forces, which is the governments main responsibility. Unfortunately, our
>> armed
>> forces are a source of tremendous waste and financial inefficiency. I am
>> just
>> not sure how one can truly privatize the military of a nation state.
>
>Hiring mercenaries (euphemistically called "contractors") - seems to be well
>underway.
Let me know when the United States Navy hires mercenaries to operate our fleet
ballistic missile submarines or our Nimitz or Gerald R. Ford class aircraft
carriers.
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