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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (13757)	3/2/2010 2:28:03 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Its smaller in terms of government employee counts, not so much by other methods. The other method being $'s of course. And those increased $'s are going to the private sector. Its that implementation by the private sector is often seen as more efficient even for government run activities. "Often seen as more efficient" and often the government is seen as more efficient these days. The Chinese contractors do make the iPhones. They assemble them. There would be no iPhones without Apple. If that contractor didn't exist they would use another. More successful countries tend to have larger governments because more successful countries can afford larger governments (in terms of employment, or spending). The burden of such a large government would kill countries with a weaker private sector, it only slows down countries with a powerful and dynamic private sector like the US. You are absolutely wrong. Weak central governments (yes low tax you need revenue to have a strong government) beget weak infrastructure and weak economies. Strong central governments that invest heavily in infrastructure beget strong economies. It's not brain surgery.