The Effectiveness of Government Management

I have grown a bit weary of constantly pointing out the nonsensical, idiotic, wrongheaded, uneconomic, unconstitutional, thieving, and brutal aspects of what the Democrats want to do to change our health care system.  I have pointed out that the things they are already doing in medicine are largely unwise.

I have noted that the U.S. government mismanages these functions very badly already:

• Health care as in Medicaid and Medicare
• The U.S. Postal Service
• Amtrak
• Ethanol production as alternative fuel
• Subsidies and mandates for wind and photovoltaic electricity generation
• Crop subsidies
• The identification of pollutants and toxic substances
• The forests and wildlands
• Permitting for oil and gas exploration and field development
• Gas mileage requirements for vehicles
• Medical device testing and quality assurance
• Scientific research and development
• Energy research and development
• Climate research
• Home mortgage lending
• Monopoly identifications
• Business accounting rules
• Business and medical liability torts
• Education (see my next post)
• Defense (largely due to too unfocused attention given diffused meddling in everything)
• Foreign policy
• Constitutional law
• Flight safety and route controls
• Interstate bridge safety and maintenance
• Airwaves licensing
• Drug testing and evaluation
• Anti-discrimination (turning it into discrimination)
• Business destruction by encouraging labor unions
• Immigration and border control
• Taxation and government revenue
  
• Economic growth
• Job creation
• Interstate commerce
• International trade
• Government property
• Government purchasing and acquisitions
• Eminent domain
• Drug use prohibitions
• Wage controls
• Price controls
• Patent controls
• Alcohol controls

It sure is a strange thing that so many Americans are on a constant search to find some other aspect of our lives to turn over to the federal government.