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(04-14-2023 10:12 AM)moe24 Wrote:  

(04-14-2023 10:03 AM)BroncoMinor Wrote:  

(04-14-2023 09:51 AM)moe24 Wrote:  There are things the government is better at (creating a fair playing field, consumer protections), and things the private sector is better at (economy). Instead of looking at examples of things the government does poorly and claiming the government does all things poorly, or the opposite and claiming the government can do no wrong by cherry picking examples, maybe we should expect the government to do the thing they are in fact good at.

Who's claiming the government can do no wrong? That's a ridiculous thought if anyone is making it. But, likely just a straw man you created.

Any government makes a lot of mistakes. Some are self inflicted mistakes when they get involved in things they shouldn't. Other times it's local, state, & federal governments being forced to make very difficult decisions for very complex problems that don't have any simple solutions.

A LOT of people act that way. There is a very large segment of our population who immediately expect the government to "do something" the second something isn't right. And anyone who points out the flaws in that mentality is immediately roasted and labelled as something they're not.

As for the last point the opposite is often true; the government makes difficult, complex, and overly bureaucratic solutions to things that are actually quite simple and easy.

That's because it isn't easy. The government has to make a lot of people happy with their decisions. A corporation has to respond only to shareholders, and that basically depends on one thing - what will make more money?