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Primarily becuase this land was developed over the last 250 years by letting the private sector sort things out....and it always does.
Any government solution is, first of all, a gamble, and second of all, nothing more than larger government.
And we all know what government run "anything" is like.
Yes, we all know that government does a lot of things it should not do, and does a lot things poorly, in any case. But, government has a role to play, mostly like the umpires in sports. Otherwise the players will bring knives and guns onto the field, and engage in every negative thing imaginable. Society without government regulation is like a ghetto with no laws. Is that what you want. It seems like that is what you are saying. Perhaps you should be careful what you say.
Government in this country has produced fantastic things that the private sector would never have produced and could never have produced.
1. Our railroad system.
2. Our defense.
3. Our space exploration.
4. Our system of self government.
5. And many other things too many to mention.
The whole matter of the PROPER role of government is a good discussion to have, but it can't start with those who want NO government.
Serious discussion on the web gets buried.
The web is like electoral politics. Loud mouths and assholes get to speak on an equal footing as the rest of us.
Bad government got us into this hole, and good government will have to get us out.
We used to have a society that was non-governmental ran by heads of families, churches, neighborhoods and employers.
All of these have had their power stripped from them, by popular acclamation, and so now all that stands between us and total chaos is GOVERNMENT.
We can't reduce government without restoring the power of these antecedents, which no one wants to do. So, all the Libertarian Beck crazies in the world are screaming for a return to the old days, without any of the authoritarian structure of the old days. They long for a world that never was and never can be, where there is no authority over the individual. They all belong in a nut house.