If the FAA and TSA were privatized their employees would be paid and run leaner
It’s just the truth. I remember when Roger Smith started Fedex. How could he compete against the USPS? Haha. How did that work out. Because if you don’t provide great service and make money you go out of business. Government doesn’t have to ever meet those thresholds. Imagine the cluster fuck with single payer healthcare. Somebody respond, besides our kick ass US military, what the government does better than private enterprise.
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and leaner and leaner until we have the economically efficient number of plane crashes
ATC is so bloated that we have almost no airline disasters in the US. If we privatize that, we can surely reach a figure that makes more sense, economically.
Plus, nothing ever goes wrong when we privatize things that are necessarily monopolistic, right? Unless you're proposing that we have competing air traffic control service providers. That would be sweet. 3 providers in every air market. Other than the ones that barely anybody wants to cover. In Montana, no one will want that district due to low volume, so it will now cost $10,000 for every passenger who wants to go to that godforsaken place I guess.
It worked well when 9/11 happened. You could get on with just about anything.
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Who flies the planes, dummy? The gubmint? As I recall, gubmint engineers steer Amtrak trains.
How they been doing lately?
you've literally made my argument for me. thanks
Amtrak is a for-profit corporation that is heavily subsidized by the federal government. it's exactly what would be put in place if ATC were privatized, so that even undertrafficked routes would have coverage.
It is an article of faith among conservatives that the private sector is ALWAYS better
It is also wrong. And it is usually propagated by people who have no idea what their government does.
There are lots of services that must be provided by the public sector, since they do not generate profit. The TSA provides one of those services. Basic science is another one. Putting out fires is another.
We've been through this before, even since you started posting here.
Being a long time poster makes you more enlightened? Indulge me with your examples?
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You have truly impressed us all in your short time here.
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JFK announced they are investing $5 billion in improvements. Read who is putting up the capital
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No, not being a moron makes me more enlightened
The airlines don't car how fast you go through security. Their interest is making sure you don't take down their planes. Security checkpoints would be identical if they were privatized.
But if you want examples, I'll give you just one: National security. I win.
I excluded the military. We will never agree you see government as a jobs program doesn’t matter if
it is efficient or effective. I see free enterprise as the truest test of what made America great. Someone or groups of people that offered a product or service that works and is profitable or they go out of business. You just don’t get it and never will. How did our government protect us from 9/11?
Yeah, the private sector would have prevented 9/11. You're a genius.
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I see I’m wasting my time, You can’t fix stupid.
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How is it stupid? He’s right. Everyone agreed they fucked up and insisted on making it a fed
function. How fast we forget.
You are aware that our TSA government employees miss hundreds of weapons every year?
No what changed is the Patriot Act and profiling likely terrorists. The guys in the airport are all for show. Kinda like a mall cop.
Missing isn’t allowing peeps to board with box cutters. That’s what changed genius.
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No loaded guns and knives are not as big a problem as box cutters. You’re crazy
Tell me about the Patriot Act and profiling can you speak to that or do just ignore what you can’t fight.
Try to follow if yer pea sized brain will let ya,
The 9/11 attack didn’t happen cause guys smuggle guns. They knew not to cause chances are they get caught.
No me good man, it happens because the private morons were letting all sorts of shit fly that the bad guys knew they could get on the plane.
Now goo write on the board a hundred times.........
Are you drunk. Hopefully you are responding from Europe.
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Okay, try amoeba sized brain.
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Where does the Fed directly compete with private enterprise?
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Medicare, Medicaid, USPS (quasi gov entity), SNAP, VA, Protectionist tariffs, Dept of Education
Actually, the list is endless. Of course one can certainly argue about which is more inefficient, corrupt and stupid- government morons or private industry idiots.
Huh? Lost me there.
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I’ll give you one, my company is doing Public/Private infrastructure projects at airports. Ask me
why the government can’t get it done anymore? I’ll give you a hint, the Empire State Building was finished in a year. Before Trump it took airports 11 years to add a new runway.
In other words, your company is getting something for free from the Feds.
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You are dumb as a stump, NY knows if they funded and did the improvements it would take forever. So
they understand what you don’t is that private companies move faster because their ROI is based on getting the project operational as soon as possible makes a big difference. Governments don’t have that imperative. But you wouldn’t know that since you have never signed the front of any check.
NY is the Fed? You mean SDNY?
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Plus no longterm pension and HC obligations.
Novel concept.
OMG. Healthcare and pensions. How awful. Let them eat cake.
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Wrong, many US corporations offer healthcare options, and stock options.
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I was referring to US taxpayers avoiding those obligations.
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Yep
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