On Wed, 8 Oct 2014 20:48:35 +0100, "Ian Field" <gangprobing.alien@ntlworld.com>
wrote:
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>"Charles Lindbergh" <spirit@stlouis.invalid> wrote in message
>news:894b3ah0ttnes5h5bqgp9g6h553lee4vib@4ax.com...
>> 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.
>
>Dunno about mercenaries, but civilian "contractors" aren't exactly rare.
There is a very big difference between a civilian contractor maintaining
equipment on a carrier and a naval aviator / war fighter providing CAS for
United States Marines on the ground in Afghanistan.
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