Shall we privatize the whole Army?

[Moadib]

The 4 or 5 thing I believe that can not be privatized are military,police,roads and infastructure,customs,and post office.With monopoly laws to prevent situations like AIG and minimal regulations just about everything else can be privatized.As far as private school, i gotta go the compete opposite as you craig.If a group of people want to teach that a green haired 4 arm dwarf created the universe, in america, thats all right by me. America was found so anyone can believe and say just about anything. Even farther why should citizen be force to pay taxes to pay for failing schools that allow illegal aliens to attend free, can not disipline sudents and often cant fire subpar teachers, and then in some areas if they want their kid to get a good education pay another $6000 for a private school. The main agruement against vouchers that ive heard is that some people dont want beliefs that they dont agree with taught in any school even if that parents agree and others have the chose not to go there...sound like a govt monopoly on ideas and speak

[charles brough]

Originally Posted by Moadib

The 4 or 5 thing I believe that can not be privatized are military,police,roads and infastructure,customs,and post office.With monopoly laws to prevent situations like AIG and minimal regulations just about everything else can be privatized.As far as private school, i gotta go the compete opposite as you craig.If a group of people want to teach that a green haired 4 arm dwarf created the universe, in america, thats all right by me. America was found so anyone can believe and say just about anything. Even farther why should citizen be force to pay taxes to pay for failing schools that allow illegal aliens to attend free, can not disipline sudents and often cant fire subpar teachers, and then in some areas if they want their kid to get a good education pay another $6000 for a private school. The main agruement against vouchers that ive heard is that some people dont want beliefs that they dont agree with taught in any school even if that parents agree and others have the chose not to go there...sound like a govt monopoly on ideas and speak

What do you think about the Treasury department? Would it be better to corporatize it and have it pay quarterly profits to stockholders? Should we let Blackwater take over the Dept. of Homeland Security? If we corporatized the fire deptments, we could end up with a fire deparment monopoly dedicated to cutting expenses in order to make more profit. We could set up hospitals for profit and let the poor either pay or die. How would we corporate Congress? Since Big Business already owns Congress, I guess I have already answered that question. . .

[Haech]

Ahem... State the problem as an utility function and optimize using a relevant discount rate.