Two Thumbs
Platinum Member
I don't understand. Business is run by people, and government is run by people. Both are at risk of going out of business - in effect losing their job. Mayors, governors, legislators, etc. can be recalled and face reelection on a regualr basis. Government, by law, must be open to the public, not so a private business.
The government can not go out of business. A state union employee must go out of their way to lose thier job.
a personal story;
I did csr work for a company that did Med Sup Part D in CA [ironically]. We had 250 - 300 totla csr. Each week we go 1-2 calls where the customer advised us that they were not dead. Medicare had declared them dead and cancelled thier insurance. Now we did what we could to help, and at the speed of government the got thier ins back in ~ 3 months, assuming they didn't die w/o thier meds in the mean time.
Now tell me you want the same people running ALL your health ins cradle to the grave.
Are you suggesting similar problems don't occur in the private sector?
My point was policy makers - not clerks - would lose their jobs; policy makers do when they fail to perform. It happens every election, incumbents lose and others take their place, some even are recalled. In effect a new government replaces the old, tantamount to how new businesses spring up when others fail.
How many entitlment programs, once started, have been eliminated by whoever came after them?
You don't need to google or anything. I have never heard of any that ended, and I doubt any ever have. But if you do know of one, I'd like to see why.