[norwaypinesavage]

You're exactly right. Things cost WAY too much. We need to make EVERYTHING free.

I have a plan: vote for Hillary!

[shadeaud]

I'm still waiting for my Obama phone. Austin voted yes on toll roads they only have themselves to blame. There is a toll road from Austin to San Antonio that is bankrupt because it wasn't worth the charge.

[ncpatriot]

Why does the government always, ALWAYS do things that are not for the people. It’s like they want to make life hard and costly.

The government is suppose to answer to us!

[hawg-farmer - FR..October 1998]

Yep, the old Class Envy meme.

[AndyJackson]

I am amazed at how quick those who subscribe to a free country are to fall for the privatization of government services scam. The privatization moved got going wholesale under Bill Clinton. I was here in DC and watched it happening. Get a goddamned clue.

This is not bringing "efficiencies" of private business to the government sector, which is a all a big myth anyway. To the extent that private business is efficient it is driven their by profit motives and the competition of the free market. There is no competition in monopolies government monopolies granted to private companies except the initial sale price (the cost of lobbying and paying off politicians and officials).

With a monopoly the profit incentive is to drive up the cost to the user. Now suppose the terms of the charter are fixed profit on revenue - then the incentive is to drive up revenue - i.e. costs on the user. Efficient use of resources has nothing to do with this.

Like privately operated prisons - the incentive is to maximize prisoners x costs per prisoner. Those are not public goals.

Our founders, our constitution is built on the basis of the recognition that there are public goods that belong to everyone, and the government is there for the people.

I cannot believe that this kind of a diatribe is necessary against anyone on THIS forum of all places in the universe.