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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Road Walker who wrote (417645)9/17/2008 2:33:53 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 1581786
 
If 95% of what the government does is beneficial and it fucks up 5% of the time, we should look at that 5% and cuts some of it out.

But it isn't 95% net beneficial.

Its not just a matter of making the wrong decisions. No reasonable person expects private or public officials to be right all the time. Its being involved in things that the government has no business being involved in. Things that aren't part of the powers granted to the government in the constitution, areas where competition could effectively function and thus work to improve decision making, but where the government precludes such competition by doing it itself, or things that don't need to be done at all.

Its also a public choice problem. Politicians and regulators and voters expand government power for their specific narrow interest.
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