2014-04-22, 10:52 AM
Well let's just go down the list:
Water Supply - A random company would cut corners to save money. Not that the Government doesn't already do this to some degree, but a random company would do it far worse and we'd never know until it kills someone, and then they'd find any reason to blame the person who died.
Food Supply - Would you rather have no one checking food to make sure it's at least some degree of safe? Really, this is in the same ballpark as the Water Supply.
Medical Supply - It's already expensive enough. Make it a highest bidder field would make things even worse than it already is. "Oh, well that guy has more money for a paper cut so you with the gun shot wound can go over there in the corner to die."
Media - This one, I will agree with.
Armed Forces/Police/Weapons (Because it's really all the same category) - Because Highest Bidder Mercenaries sounds like the best idea ever. Pretty sure we'd already have had WW3 if this wasn't controlled by the government.
Money - Besides an old school trading system, I'm not really sure what they expect here.
Also, this kind of stuff wasn't, "why the constitution and the declaration of independence was created." They were created because Britain was literally abusing the pomegranate out of the people, in a far higher degree than what people think they're being abused for now. Taxes were ridiculous. There were ridiculous curfews. British soldiers were allowed to just barge into your house, take your stuff, sleep in your home, and literally do whatever they wanted. There was no representation from the "motherland." The colonies were literally ignored by the King, and the British were allowed to do whatever they wanted, however they wanted, whenever they wanted with absolutely no regard for the people at all. The only thing that is remotely similar is the control of the media, but even now the US government doesn't have control of the media in the way the British did back then.
Contrary to what people may think, this is not what is happening now. That is not to say that things are perfect, but they are not the same at all.
Water Supply - A random company would cut corners to save money. Not that the Government doesn't already do this to some degree, but a random company would do it far worse and we'd never know until it kills someone, and then they'd find any reason to blame the person who died.
Food Supply - Would you rather have no one checking food to make sure it's at least some degree of safe? Really, this is in the same ballpark as the Water Supply.
Medical Supply - It's already expensive enough. Make it a highest bidder field would make things even worse than it already is. "Oh, well that guy has more money for a paper cut so you with the gun shot wound can go over there in the corner to die."
Media - This one, I will agree with.
Armed Forces/Police/Weapons (Because it's really all the same category) - Because Highest Bidder Mercenaries sounds like the best idea ever. Pretty sure we'd already have had WW3 if this wasn't controlled by the government.
Money - Besides an old school trading system, I'm not really sure what they expect here.
Also, this kind of stuff wasn't, "why the constitution and the declaration of independence was created." They were created because Britain was literally abusing the pomegranate out of the people, in a far higher degree than what people think they're being abused for now. Taxes were ridiculous. There were ridiculous curfews. British soldiers were allowed to just barge into your house, take your stuff, sleep in your home, and literally do whatever they wanted. There was no representation from the "motherland." The colonies were literally ignored by the King, and the British were allowed to do whatever they wanted, however they wanted, whenever they wanted with absolutely no regard for the people at all. The only thing that is remotely similar is the control of the media, but even now the US government doesn't have control of the media in the way the British did back then.
Contrary to what people may think, this is not what is happening now. That is not to say that things are perfect, but they are not the same at all.