This afternoon while driving home I was listening to talk radio, some of you may already be judging but hear me out, and I heard the conservative them for bashing government run health care, “If the government can run the DMV, screws up this simple program, makes this stupid mistake, etc…then why would we entrust it with 1/6th of economy and let it run health care.” This is a very valid point. The question I have is why this isn’t consistently applied to defense and security. If we can not trust government run health care or hand out drivers licenses, then how can we trust government to a true monopoly on protecting our individual rights, defending our property and lives, and running an industry that directly cost nearly 10 percent of US GDP in 2009. The defense industry is riddled with just as much corruption, inefficiency, bureaucracy, and all other issues that are symptomatic of a government run program that lacks internalized costs for those making the decisions.
Archive for the ‘Warfare’ Category
Conservative Problems with “Big Government” Exclude Security and Defense
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
Globalization and “Unrestricted Warfare”
Thursday, November 26th, 2009After the break is the introduction I wrote for this essay earlier this year. Since then I have substantially changed my position on war and foreign policy. However, with such a large change there are still many gaps I need to fill in and much I need to learn before I can put together a coherent essay on the matter. I maintained the original introduction to record the evolution of my thought which is one of the goals of this blog. I hope to update my political survey soon with recent changes in certain positions and expand on my new ideas of war and foreign policy in a future essay. In the mean time, you can see how I thought not too long ago and take away many insights that I still find to be relevant even if my position has changed.