Originally Posted by
FunkyDexter
I'm a lib dem so I put independent in the opll. I caould have called myself a democrat just as easy though.
Actually, I do believe in big government. As I see it there are basically two sources for the services we need, government or the market. While I may be cynical about the motivations of politicians, at least they have a theoretical remit to ensure things are fair. The market has no such remit. It's only motivation is money and any decent service you, as a consumer, recieve is merely a means to that end.
I do think you have to separate state from national government, though, and I generally believe decisions should be taken and the most de-centralised level possible. So if I was looking at the US I guess I'd be arguing for both the market and the national government to start handing over as many responsibilities as possible to the state governments.
But I think I'd still choose national government to have control over issues like health care than I would the market. And if you want an example as to why:-
If healthcare were purely the domain of the market he wouldn't have been cluttering up that waiting room... he'd have been lying dead in the street instead.