tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5207550747227359267.post3281693670728141147..comments2024-03-13T09:26:30.351-04:00Comments on PunkPatriot.com: Bernie Sanders vs Obama: Here's the AlgebraThe Punk Patriothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02671149620207872986noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5207550747227359267.post-80159867027854856972011-07-26T17:01:16.866-04:002011-07-26T17:01:16.866-04:00Message bodySecondly, the government can not inves...Message bodySecondly, the government can not invest properly in jobs. It does not receive the same signals as the free market and private companies. Private companies base their employment needs based off cost and profitability. They create jobs and structure themselves in such a way that maximizes efficiency and profit. If they dont do this well, they go out of business. Unless of course they use big government to bail them out. But this is not a free market principle. The government does not receive any cost or profitability signals. Without these signals, they have no way of knowing if a department or agency is organized efficiently or if some goventment jobs are even needed. We can see this all around us with numerous agencies. How many people work for the DEA? What are they doing? Spending billions on a failed drug war that has shown zero results and has put millions of nonviolent citizens in jail. If this was a private company, it would have bankrupt long ago.<br />But the government on the other hand, even with these horrid results staring them in the face, just keep giving the DEA more money. How about all of our security agencies. We have homeland security, the TSA, FBI, CIA, etc.. How many more of these organizations do we need? It has become so bloated and huge, that there is no evidence its even working efficiency and correctly. Again, what does government do? Throw more money at it. How many bureacrats do we have that make 100,000 a year and just move papers around? Gvnt solution, throw more money at. And you want more of this? All this is doing is sucking resources and manpower from the private sector. Gvnt can create jobs, but it cant create efficient jobs that will benefit society and satisfy our needs properly. I recall reading some article that showed that from all the stimulous money used to create jobs, it ended up being about 500,000 per job created. That sounds like a great use of our tax dollars.<br />We as consumers in free market make choices everyday on what products and services we want. If companies dont please us, we go somewhere else. With gvnt, we get their service or agency whether we like it or not or whether it works or not. But perhaps you dont care about this. Maybe you want gvmt to create jobs regardless of what that job is. If thats the case, why dont we just pay the unemployed to dig holes and fill them up when they are done. Its a job right?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5207550747227359267.post-61718598314747438222011-07-26T14:40:41.462-04:002011-07-26T14:40:41.462-04:00Ok, so everyone can go to college and government j...Ok, so everyone can go to college and government just picks up the tab? Its just that easy? Ok, well, where does government get the money to pay the tab? Huh? They need to get it from someone. Need you forget, the government makes nothing and has nothing. In order to function, it needs to take the goods, services or money from someone else. The people going to college go for free, but someone is still paying for it. So you want someone else to pay for your education? That would be amazing, but we dont live in a world where everything is free. It seems you want all of this free stuff and want someone else to pay the bill. What a wonderful plan. This plan would also lead to higher prices in education that would eventually bankrupt the country. If universities are guaranteed the money for the education of all their students, then why not keep raising the price every year? We can already see this with the rising cost of universities and college which is contributed to government educational loans. Government will just pay for it, so who cares right? Or do you want government to fix the cost of education across the board? Well, how do you determine such prices? Will Harvard get the same amount of money as does the local community college? This would then make the assumption that the quality of education is the same at both schools, when it obviously wouldnt be. So, why would anyone go to a community college when government will just pay the tab for them to go to Harvard? Or do you just want standardized education across the board where everything is the same? Well, who sets the standards? My standards may be different then yours. Do you want some wise overlord to set the standards? This is a piss poor plan. Socialized education would be a complete failure. The US already has a highly socialized education system and as you stated above, its not doing so well. All we have been doing for the last 50 years is throwing more and more money at our education and have more government involvement in our education and it just keeps getting worse and worse. How will socializing this even more make it better?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5207550747227359267.post-21396862556396024352011-07-26T12:28:49.237-04:002011-07-26T12:28:49.237-04:00Thank you! Can you find articles and sources to b...Thank you! Can you find articles and sources to back these up?The Punk Patriothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02671149620207872986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5207550747227359267.post-45982115677731841322011-07-26T08:44:36.892-04:002011-07-26T08:44:36.892-04:00everything about the war on some drugs, especially...everything about the war on some drugs, especially medical marijuana.<br /><br />everything about promoting monsanto and gmo.<br /><br />everything about fda attacks on anything outside the realm of big pharmaceutical companies.<br /><br />continuing to back nuclear power as the hope of the future.<br /><br />in his attacks on whistleblowers, he has outdone all previous presidents.<br /><br />he has expanded the use of torture and refused to prosecute known perpetrators.<br /><br />i'm sure there's more.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com