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Can you Name a Single Successful Government Program?
#61
RE: Can you Name a Single Successful Government Program?
(August 24, 2013 at 5:10 am)The Germans are coming Wrote:
(August 23, 2013 at 7:53 pm)Koolay Wrote: Irrelevent. Government forced roads upon us, if our world existed without governments, the world's economic system would be completely different. Free market entities only use roads because they are there.

Roads existed ever since humans learned to travel.

The first roads such as the silk trail where actualy built by the free market for the purpose of trade. Roads were not "forced on mankind" by goverment. Roads came into existance through human travel. Goverments have merely been insuring that those roads are in a good and safe state ever since the Romans started reeinforcing them.

But who am I joking, you are ignorant of todays reality, so why should you care about historic facts?

[I'm into anticipating responses today.]

Kool-aid: "Ah hah! Roads were built by private enterprise but have been co-opted by socialist big government. Oh, the horror!"
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#62
RE: Can you Name a Single Successful Government Program?
(August 24, 2013 at 10:36 am)popeyespappy Wrote: I'd really like to see Koolaid answer this one.

(August 23, 2013 at 11:14 pm)popeyespappy Wrote: [Image: M822A1F4.GIF]

Problem: Large numbers of miners are being killed in mining accidents.

Cause: Mining companies value profit more than life and refuse to implement basic safety standards.

Solution: Government institutes a program that requires mining companies to implement basic safety standards.

Effect: Immediate and large drop in the number of miners killed in work related accidents.

Oh but surely the free market will find its own way without government interference when it comes to safety standards! Surely it doesn't value the rise of profit margins over all else??

I would like a certain someone (hint: He's the OP) to name a single wide-scale endeavor by private concerns that have been for the good of their workers without a profit motive, government-mandated law, and/or tax incentive to do so.
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#63
RE: Can you Name a Single Successful Government Program?
(August 23, 2013 at 12:50 pm)Tiberius Wrote: What does that make me then?

Also, Libertarians accept government as valid. He sounds more like an anarchist.

And a stupid one at that. It's one thing to deny a governing body... it's quite another to be so ignorant as to suggest that no governing body ever has managed to accomplish any of its goals.
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#64
RE: Can you Name a Single Successful Government Program?
"A stupid one at that..."

Yeah, that pretty much sums up Koolay.
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#65
RE: Can you Name a Single Successful Government Program?
(August 25, 2013 at 6:54 am)Creed of Heresy Wrote: "A stupid one at that..."

Yeah, that pretty much sums up Koolay.

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#66
RE: Can you Name a Single Successful Government Program?
Is this Koolay fellow for real?
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#67
RE: Can you Name a Single Successful Government Program?
If anyone else hasn't......"Murica" nuff said.
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#68
RE: Can you Name a Single Successful Government Program?
Name some government policies that hurts/have hurt the government and see what kind of a reaction He gives us!
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#69
RE: Can you Name a Single Successful Government Program?
(August 26, 2013 at 10:06 am)NoraBrimstone Wrote: Is this Koolay fellow for real?

I doubt it
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#70
RE: Can you Name a Single Successful Government Program?
So apparently the goal posts have been shifted so far that any government program relying on tax funding doesn't count as a success. In other words, every single government program ever implemented.
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