Yo, Zeus,
Or are we good enough friends that I can call you Jupiter?
<<How about USA 1900-1996? The US became a major economic player with regulated power. Ya gotta go with the facts and the obvious...experiment on a small scale and implement changes slowly. Don't fix it if it ain't broke.>>
Actually, I'm sure USA 1900-1996 had a ton of government provided services which have stood/failed the test of time. Take public schools, for instance. It's no accident that we've gone from something like 50,000 home school students in the early 70's to almost a million today. It used to be that home schooling was for the Amish and Mennonites, or people with strongly held religious feelings. Now it's just for plain folks who take a good hard look at centralized planning for schools.
We used to have garbagemen on the city and county payrolls. Centralized picking up of the trash. Not any more (except in large, inefficient cities like Philly--guess what, a strike comes along and phew! governor! it gets pretty ripe, pretty quick)--we've got contract trash collection with different rates for different sized trash barrels and frequency (I'm a relatively small 16 gallon barrel myself, once a week).
The whole reason to deregulate (not "dumb-regulate" a la California) is to spread out the costs efficiently, as only a relatively free market can. Where we run into problems, no surprise, is when politicians get involved.
Nice inauguration yesterday, btw, even if it was hard to get Slick off the screen. Doesn't he get it?
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