Octorox said:
The government is there to serve the people. Corporations are there to serve their shareholders.
This is by far, the most uninformed statement I've heard in a while. A corporation also must serve the people they cater to or they risk losing business and thereby losing money. Have you ever complained to a business? I'll bet you saw results immediately. The managers wages are directly related to income, therefor they kiss the customers ass. Instead with a government, you have no reliance upon your money because it is forcefully taken in the form of taxes. A bureaucrat has no qualms telling you to get bent because his wages are not directly related to you, so who cares, they'll get paid regardless and they do not worry about their "business" going bankrupt because, hey, they can just tax you more!! Unless you actually think the Post Office, Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, and Amtrak are being run efficiently, government has proven it cannot effectively or efficiently serve the people.