Reply #54: K & R - So true!

[Raksha]

Re "There are many reasons why a wide variety of services should be provided primarily by government rather than by the private sector. I discuss some of those reasons in detail in this post. Here I will stress just one, which is probably the most important: the elimination of the profit motive. Our government is founded upon the principle that ALL government employees, even including the President of the United States, work in the service of the citizens of our country. Making a profit is not the issue. The purpose of all government work is to serve our fellow citizens – at least in theory.

Right wing ideologues hate that philosophy. They believe (or say they believe) that everything operates best according to the principles of the so-called “free market”, which means that the profit motive is the best means of ensuring that government work or any other work is of the highest quality, efficiency, and effectiveness."

Any chance of coming up with a new slogan: "The private sector isn't the solution; the private sector is the problem."

It seems to me that could go viral in no time, because it's obviously more true than Reagan's original. Regardless of how brainwashed most Americans are, they see and feel the truth of it in their everyday lives. There's a limit to how much conditioning can continue to cancel out the truth of their own experience and the experience of their friends and neighbors...isn't there?