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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (3614)	10/26/2000 5:52:06 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 10042

I didn't say that any private sector company or industry would always under all circumstances give a better product and/or price then the government. Such a statement would be false. However a private sector industry with competition will do better then government owned or controlled industries or service providers a large enough percentage of the time so that it the way to bet. The road in front of your house is probably a government/owned controlled road so the government will pay for its maintainence. Some governments do such work themselves others hire contractor. Its possible that your example was truly an example of a private company providing a service (to the government). I'm even glad they keep an eye out for my safety where free market drugs and food and toys and cars are concerned- 'cause the free market would be happy to kill me if it added to their bottom line. Usu. it is not in the best interest of a company to have its customers die. Also you can have privately provided services and still have safety regulation. I sure as shootin' don't trust the private sector to educate my child. If I had a child, I wouldn't trust anyone complexity to educate that child. I would want to know as much as I can about what is being taught, how it is being taught and how successful the school was. If the school was doing a poor job I would want the option to put the child in another school, and I would want the school to be exposed to competition to encourage it to do a good job. (Rather then being in a position where it gets the money anyway and doesn't have to worry about providing what I see as good service.) Tim