What does he mean by "back to the private sector"? I thought he was against picking winners and losers.

He doesn't seem to understand the idea of government as providing that which the private sector cannot provide because it necessarily has to run at a loss, you know, like emergency services etc. If there's a dollar to be made you can be sure the private sector is already there unless legislation prohibits it.

Yeah! Fuck those people caught up in Hurricane Sandy! Because it makes sense for every state to have their own disaster relief fund to deal with a crisis of this magnitude. GOP Logic = win!

>> ^Kofi:

What does he mean by "back to the private sector"? I thought he was against picking winners and losers.
He doesn't seem to understand the idea of government as providing that which the private sector cannot provide because it necessarily has to run at a loss, you know, like emergency services etc. If there's a dollar to be made you can be sure the private sector is already there unless legislation prohibits it.

I think the idea is that you buy insurance against natural disaster.


Of course if you have any pre-existing conditions, say your house is built near a fault line, next to the sea or in hurricane alley then your premiums are probably going to be extortionate.

To be fair. He didn't quite say that federal disaster relief should be privatised, just that it should be moved to the state level - and then you could argue he went off on a tangent about how you should privatise as much as possible and that large federal spending was "immoral". I think whats interesting is what he considers to be a waste of federal money, and what isn't - say a bloated defence budget. Maybe if you build enough tanks you can shoot the next Katrina to pieces?

It's interesting that he feels it's "immoral" to use the strength of the nation as a whole to support a smaller community of people who have been struck by massive disaster.

Interesting because in his mind it's a bigger sin to take his money than to turn your back on the desperate needs of your fellow citizens.

That's awfully interesting morality. Do they teach that in the bible? I just wonder because, as we all know, God is the basis of all morality.

I think he just wants to send everything to the private sector so if he gets elected, he doesn't actually have to do any fucking work.

>> ^Kofi:

What does he mean by "back to the private sector"? I thought he was against picking winners and losers.


In my experiences as an outside party, I've noticed Romney tends to be against lot of things that he's in favor of.

The strange thing is that republican voters actually believe that a state-by-state patchwork of for-profit emergency responders would be more effective and cost less than a national government agency.