Quote:It's a government-created monopoly. It's not a "free market" in any sense of the word.


 

Not every business responds to the customer. In a free market, those that don't fail. If Comcast is that bad, why are people still buying their product? The reason is that the city GOVERNMENT has given Comcast a monopoly. Just about every government 'service' is a monopoly. The few that aren't will sometimes respond to competition, as the Post Office has to competition from FedEx and UPS.

 

Can you think of any government 'service' that has noticeably improved since its creation? Not the DMV. Not the federal highway department. Not the VA. Not inner city police departments. Not public schools. Not the Social Security Administration. Not the IRS. Not NASA.

While I gotta admire your tenacity in sticking to the "government IS the problem!" doctrine from the Reagan era, I completely disagree.

 

The post office was created by the US Constitution.  It's much better now than it used to be.

 

DMVs are hit and miss, and are a local nuisance or benefit.  In my county, they contract out the service to a private provider, and they suck worse than the government-run centers.

 

NASA, since it's inception and before it was neutered by funding cuts, has consistently yielded outrageously profitable tech improvements for not just the government, but the entire world.  Landing on the moon was cool and all, but satellite communication and the Global Positioning System have permanently changed the way we run our lives.

 

And I do find it ironic that the government invention known as "the internet" has provided the ultimate forum for those that would like to see the government eliminated.

 

I could go on, but the US government has been responsible for so many wondrous and useful things we take for granted in modern life, it would take me all day to catalog.

 

All government ain't evil, y'all.

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