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Date: 2009-01-10 07:16 am (UTC)Just look at Blago! :D
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Date: 2009-01-09 09:32 pm (UTC)1:Businesses have to remain profitable to stay in business, unlike today's government, where a deficit in the trillions doesn't seem to be a big deal.
2: If customers are dissatisfied with the poor service of one business, they can usually go to another. If citizens are upset with the policies of their government it is usually very difficult (and dangerous in certain countries) to move to another and start over as a citizen of another nation. Even if moving was easy it would not necessarily cause governments to provide better services, as nations don't compete for taxpayers in the sense that businesses compete for customers.
Both of these reasons may help explain why private companies almost always perform better than government agencies (Ex. FedEx vs. USPS).
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Date: 2009-01-10 01:10 am (UTC)Well unless you're a CEO that drove the company into the ground and get a multi-million retirement package including bonus money.
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Date: 2009-01-10 02:51 am (UTC)Nice snark, but what's the total sum of those kind of golden parachutes for failed companies annually? I'd wager it's quite a few order of magnitudes less than money that goes to lazy/incompetent government employees.
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Date: 2009-01-11 12:20 am (UTC)The USPS provides competitive and efficient direct front door delivery service six days a week, even to areas that are too small or remote to be profitable by a private company. Pretty awesome actually.
Aaah, selective memory.
Date: 2009-01-10 06:23 am (UTC)Sweeet!
Does that mean we get the BAILOUT money back?
Now if only Paulson could remember where it all went.
Re: Aaah, selective memory.
Date: 2009-01-11 05:33 am (UTC)This statement, while true, only tells half of the story. Until recently, sub prime mortgages were viewed as profitable and sustainable. This fact begs the question: why? Mainly due to rising housing prices, which were brought on by the Federal Reserve. Over the past eight years they lowered the Federal funds rate and its interest rates, practically flooding the market with credit to perpetuate the housing bubble and make sub prime mortgages more profitable. Nobody in the federal government's vast bueraucracy saw this as a problem. In fact, Housing and Urban Development encouraged (http://pubcit.typepad.com/clpblog/2008/09/blaming-the-cra.html) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to use sub prime loans to provide affordable housing for low-income families.
As I've said before, the sub prime crisis was not proof of the superiority of government over business in resolving basic economic questions. It was a disaster brought on by systematic problems in both, problems that cannot be solved by more money and more employees (again, we need to bear in mind the message of the cartoon posted).
Unfortunately, no, because we never had that money in the first place. The government just told us we did ;).
Re: Aaah, selective memory.
Date: 2009-01-11 09:49 am (UTC)What were we arguing about again?
Re: Aaah, selective memory.
Date: 2009-01-11 03:20 pm (UTC)Re: Aaah, selective memory.
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Date: 2009-01-10 06:40 am (UTC)Again a bullshit argument. Let me know when FedEx has to make daily deliveries to everyone including everything from junk mail to magazines and ordinary packages. Oh, but what about next day or express package deliveries you might say, Fed-Ex just has to be better? Not according to Consumer Reports: (http://consumerist.com/5072394/overnight-shipping-battle-fedex-vs-usps-vs-ups)
Sorry to burst your bubble bud.
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Date: 2009-01-10 07:18 am (UTC)Oh, and when FedEx loses money they have to either perform better or suffer the consequences. The USPS goes to Congress and gets approval to raise first class postage rates.
There you go again...
Date: 2009-01-10 08:09 am (UTC)You gloss over Consumer Report's study that shows FedEx isn't any better than the USPS and is in fact, much much more expensive. Think your postage stamps are high now, wait until FedEx and other private companies are put in charge. *snicker*
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Date: 2009-01-11 06:52 pm (UTC)go to the Fed and ask for a handout.
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Date: 2009-01-09 10:02 pm (UTC)Do conservatives have any plans?
Date: 2009-01-09 10:39 pm (UTC)am i doin it rite?
Date: 2009-01-10 01:40 am (UTC)Re: am i doin it rite?
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Date: 2009-01-10 07:13 am (UTC)Re: am i doin it rite?
Date: 2009-01-10 02:31 pm (UTC)Re: Do conservatives have any plans?
Date: 2009-01-10 02:54 am (UTC)Re: Do conservatives have any plans?
Date: 2009-01-10 03:24 am (UTC)Re: Do conservatives have any plans?
Date: 2009-01-10 07:21 am (UTC)Smoot-Hawley? Increasing taxes? o_O
Things that have actually been successful:
Across the board income tax rate cuts; cuts in taxes on long term capital gains; free trade.
Yeah, just was conservatives do support.
If government spending "cured" recessions how did we fall into one in the first place?
Considering the community, I believe this is a fair response:
Date: 2009-01-12 10:48 pm (UTC)Conservatism has failed. Unfortunately, in politics, failure isn't enough to actually stop something from continuing...
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Date: 2009-01-12 01:25 pm (UTC)Re: Do conservatives have any plans?
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Date: 2009-01-10 04:18 am (UTC)Fuck you, Stantis!
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Date: 2009-01-10 06:26 am (UTC)U DONT EXIST!
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