Public sector cuts may cost more than they save
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canberratimes.com.auPosted Sep 24, 2012, 5:38 AM UTC
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The first comment and its response on that story neatly sums up this entire 'debate'. There are people who hold the statement 'private enterprise can do everything the government can do, better, cheaper' as an ideology. As a religion. Some spout off right here. The meme is pushed by business and powerful people, and will not be stopped until business owns all infrastructure and rights to provide services that we currently think of as 'public'. Their mission is to sack civil society and divide the spoils to private hands, and they are succeeding.
Nah man, the libertarian utopia will provide for all of mankind's needs. Corporations and individuals will self-regulate and everybody will happily contribute to the social goods that sustain them. No-one will act like a jerk and try to rob anyone else's mother blind because the Free Market.
Both Communism and pure free market ideology fail for one simple reason - they both rely on humans not acting like humans.