name a True Capitalist...one that wants everything private. its not many. Most want and believe in Capitalism, but don't agree to what exeunt. Private Military? I don't see any Republicans for that. Private Roads only? Not many for that....its a scale. And on issues like Health care the Private capitalist system Clearly is Failing on a key issue for Americanised if they can't fix it , then its time to let someone else try. Just like if the government can't run something, they often turn to privatizing it later.
I see the whole US system as no longer any type of real Free market in almost any feild, its a rich mans playground where the ideas of most mean nothing. Free markets only work when they are done openly, Fairly, and honestly. American Companies today lack all of those in great amounts.
Ah... you know I hadn't thought of that, but I'm not even sure if the military would be included. Ownership of means of productions. What product does the military produce exactly?
That said, I'm a constitutionalist. Therefore the military is the single sole duty of the federal government. So I am ok with it being government controlled. It's everything else in the country I'm against being under government control.
Roads are a product, not a means of production. Ownership of the product is not in question. It's the private corporations that build the roads, that is capitalism.
The government can't run anything. I have yet to see a single instance where government running X business was able to do so well.
Here's my problem. Every single time government tries to run something, the predictable, inevitable failure comes. Yet... here we are thinking 'it might work this time!'... why? Why do you think it will work, when it never has in the history of the planet?
Now granted you do have a point. Why is it, that in some cases that market seems stacked? I would suggest to you, it isn't the free market that's failed, but rather the government's intrusion into the market.
Why prior to WW2 was their dozens of independent car manufactures, and after there is 6 or less? Answer, government regulations. Today it's nearly impossible to start a business making cars in the US. So much regulations, so much red tape, so much restrictions and mandates... a small independent manufacture doesn't stand a chance. So we have the 'big three' who's only competition is from foreign companies who's native governments support them instead of hinder them.
I suggest the Health Care industry is the same. There is so many regulations, so much red type, so much government control in the health care industry now, that we are paying the prices.
When nationalized health care is passed, it will be the same boondoggle it is everywhere else it's tried, and end up like MassHealth.
