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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (344518)	7/26/2007 7:45:11 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573092

"Federal spending has reach new highs under the Bush administration, yet government has become more and more ineffective. " It's the "Brownie" effect Ten! It's the guy YOU voted for TWICE! Don't forget the war he's been putting on our credit card - we haven't even BEGUN to pay for that..

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (344518)	7/26/2007 8:40:11 PM
From: Road Walker	Respond to of 1573092

re: Advocates for universal health care will continually pound the table, saying, "It doesn't have to be inefficient! We can do it better than private enterprise can!" Private health insurance companies? The government certainly can. Remember single payer is just a payment system, with much lower costs and a single payment system vs. over 200. It's not complicated Ten. re: Federal spending has reach new highs under the Bush administration, yet government has become more and more ineffective. And it got much more efficient under Clinton. Remember Greenspan saying the surpluses could be a problem?

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (344518)	7/28/2007 12:29:44 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573092

Ten, scroll down to the chart under "Universal health care economics" en.wikipedia.org I can't figure out how to post it here...

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (344518)	7/28/2007 6:00:19 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1573092

, > I don't see why this argument is relevant. Because my beef with big government is that it is almost always inefficient. How can you possibly know this? Bureaucrats are forced to deal with all kinds of rules and laws imposed upon them by citizens like yourself while all kinds of arbitrary limits are placed on their spending abilities. Rarely has private enterprise been able to do successfully and profitably what public bureacracies do day in and day out. If they did, they would be beating down the doors of City Hall. Every so often you hear with great fanfare some [Republican] city turning over all their responsibilities to private industry. What you rarely hear is what happens a few years later when all that work is given back to the city to do. The work is inefficient because it mainly is and not necessarily because of the people. If it weren't inefficient, making a profit would be a lot easier. I have worked in both the public and private sectors.......the major difference I see is there is more money to be had in the private sector and because that's true, the people in the private sector tend to be more ambitious and cutthroat. Please note......I didn't say smarter.