“There is far more danger in public than private monopoly, for when government goes into business it can always shift its losses to the taxpayer. Government never makes ends meet – and that is the first requisite of business.”
– Thomas Edison
Disrupting the Borg is expensive and time consuming!
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A government monopoly is call fascism.
How quaint that he didn’t add that the benefits are shifted to those with political connections. But I guess back then no one expected the federal government to grow to 1/5 of the GDP.
1/5 ? Here in the EUSSR it is more like 2/5 or 1/2.
Stop it while you still can. Here, we’re doomed aready.
Doesn’t this quote apply – in spades – to Obamacare? The idea that it would save money for the Government or the private sector was always a fantasy. It will bleed public money like nothing before it!