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<blockquote data-quote="Proximity" data-source="post: 7931749" data-attributes="member: 589997">First, I didn&#039;t bring up USPS.Second, it&#039;s only losing money now because people don&#039;t use mail as much with the advent of email, not because it&#039;s inefficient. Before, it used to be a profitable endeavor. If private companies were legally obligated to deliver mail to each and every home in the united states every day except Sunday, they wouldn&#039;t be profitable either.And dealing with red tape, building permits and codes speaks nothing to financial efficiency. You can&#039;t deny that theoretically/ideally, government should be able to do things cheaper because of the lack of profit. But, maybe I do have an optimistic view of government. But that&#039;s better than a cynical one. If all people do is view government as crap, then it will be crap. How can we expect government to be efficient if we don&#039;t vote people in who believe in it? It&#039;s like trying to get your car fixed by a guy who hates automobiles and still rides his horse everywhere.Am I not going to get a response to my last reply to you?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Proximity, post: 7931749, member: 589997"] First, I didn't bring up USPS. Second, it's only losing money now because people don't use mail as much with the advent of email, not because it's inefficient. Before, it used to be a profitable endeavor. If private companies were legally obligated to deliver mail to each and every home in the united states every day except Sunday, they wouldn't be profitable either. And dealing with red tape, building permits and codes speaks nothing to financial efficiency. You can't deny that theoretically/ideally, government should be able to do things cheaper because of the lack of profit. But, maybe I do have an optimistic view of government. But that's better than a cynical one. If all people do is view government as crap, then it will be crap. How can we expect government to be efficient if we don't vote people in who believe in it? It's like trying to get your car fixed by a guy who hates automobiles and still rides his horse everywhere. Am I not going to get a response to my last reply to you? [/QUOTE]

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