You can have very good government programs and very bad ones. Ditto for the private sector.
That much is true. But bad government programs can go on forever, while really bad and inefficient private sector companies, that don't receive government protection, tend to go under, or get acquired, or at least seriously lose market share.
Also even a good government program will most likely not serve to grow the economy as well as the private sector. The private sector responds to demand as signaled by prices, the government programs respond to political decisions.
I am saying that, since it works better in other countries
That's a very debatable point.
let's try single payer health care
You can't really try it. If you do it, it isn't just a try, unless it causes an extreme and obvious disaster (rather than merely being a mild to moderate net negative) your pretty much locked in to it. Programs like this create their own constituency.
I am also saying to revert back to a US military war and kick out the private contractors who aren't under the chain of command and are poorly regulated if at all regulated.
The direct part of the war (at least the US part of it) is a US military war.
The support functions probably should be done by contractors. Doubling our army permanently so that it can perform all these functions isn't very efficient. The army's (and the other branch's) competitive advantage is (to put it crudely) in killing people and breaking things, not in moving around supplies, constructing embassies, generators, etc.
You might be thinking about outfits like Blackwater, that hire combat trained contractors do provide security. Well a good argument can be made that its better to have them than to replace them with more soldiers, but even if you reject this idea, they are only a minority of contractors. Most of the contractor work isn't remotely combat related.
That will mean calling for a draft which is a good thing anyway.
That would be an awful thing on so many levels. The military doesn't want one, it would rather have highly trained professional soldiers, than a bunch of cannon fodder. Also the draft is involuntary servitude.
War isn't a private adventure, it is a public commitment
And contractors, like they do in many other government areas, work in the public commitment. |
