[quote=poorgradstudent]
You haven’t read The Jungle, have you?
There are things Government always is more efficient at: National Defense and Highways are two obvious examples. There are things the private sector does extremely well. Working in biotech I can tell you that drug discovery doesn’t work without both government and free market factors in play. The free market is great at bringing products to market and making them affordable to the mass market. But overall the free market is TERRIBLE at swing-for-the-fences, so crazy it just might work ideas. The very internet we are using would not really exist without government help. Otherwise we’d probably have a patchwork of AOL/Compuserve type networks and company intranets; think mid to late 90s.
History has clearly shown regulated free markets work best of all. Blanket statements about free market or government always being better are at best overly simplistic and at worst ignorant.[/quote]
The problems with your idea, poorgradstudent, are that, even in the simplified and abbreviated version you present 1)it doesn’t translate into a sound bite and 2)it doesn’t fit with any radical ideologies. So you can’t sell it to simple-minded people or those with short attention spans. And if you lose those two groups, it’s tough to win an election.
