Quote Originally Posted by Total_Blender View Post

If the "private sector" were so "innovative," why haven't they cured cancer, aids, etc yet?
Most of the innovation is happening at private universites with government funding. There's no way private industry can compete with an entity with almost limitless funds which were confiscated at essentially what is the end of a gun barrel. The problem with the government model, is that it can't work at a loss forever. See Soviet Russia.