Throckmorton
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Yet in claiming responsibility for them, the government still isn't taking care of them either. So the free market would not have done any worse for them.
There's a difference between messing up, which happens in every sphere of human existence, and simply not being able to take care of the needs of a group of people because it's not profitable.
The government may have cut the phone lines, but the free market wouldn't have and didn't provide insurance in the first place. Tough to mess up something you don't have to deal with at all.
I might as well say "the Post Office took forever to deliver my mail, a private plane delivering it from Texas to Hawaii would have been faster"... Well maybe, but there IS NO private plane delivering mail from Texas to Hawaii that I can afford.
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