A Government-run Life

The Democrats have this strange opinion that the government is somehow more efficient than the private sector. The Leftist believes that the cost of doing business through the government is lower than the cost of doing business in the private sector. And, since they are so darn efficient, it is up to those wise government bureaucrats to teach, regulate, and control the private sector, if necessary.

This is false, and so morally wrong.

Every government-run program ends up costing more than originally intended, and fails in the "efficiency" originally intended. On top of that, the government has no "profit" incentive, meaning that they (in the end) really don't care how well of a job they do. The citizen that is dependent upon the government is at the mercy of the government-run program, and the government's goal becomes running it as cheaply as they can without care in the finer points that make the consumer happy - and while they try to run it cheaply, as proven time and time again (be it the massive failures of Medicare, Social Security, The Department of Education, etc.) the program becomes bogged down by waste, and poor practices, and eventually goes broke - becoming a blackhole of out of control spending because the politicians don't want to admit their bright idea was just another way to suck tax money out of the people.

What one needs to realize, is that in the end, the politicians really don't care if the program (any program) is sufficient, efficient, acceptable, or able to compete with the private sector. The ultimate goal of the government is control. The end result is a government-run life, without that pesky private sector, or capitalism, or individual liberty, getting in the way. This is how Marxists work, and this is the direction the Obama Administration is taking us.

-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary

By Douglas V. Gibbs