Your sarcasm seems to rest primarily on the idea that the government is the least-efficient actor possible, which is a popular theory promoted by a group of people who tend to spend their time in control of the government ensuring it is the least-efficient actor possible.
Insert meme of Eric Andre shooting the government and then asking why the government would do such a thing.
In truth, governments around the world deliver a wide range of services at a wide level of efficiencies, and even here in the US, any reasonable comparison of government-provided services with their direct non-governmental equivalents reveals that the government does better than popular image suggests.
I mean, Fedex and UPS don't even deliver to many of the places the USPS does, and when they do, they charge more. Amazon relies heavily on USPS to deliver where they can't efficiently do so. And this is despite heavy-handed handicapping of the USPS in the form of onerous funding requirements by the same party who now tell you that the government is incapable of doing anything well.
There is public housing available in many countries around the world that doesn't carry the legacy of the USA's past efforts. Public housing that is desirable for more than just the economic reasons. Public housing doesn't have to mean total government control of housing. Really good public housing is possible if people want it to happen more than they want to score political points by strangling any efforts in that direction.
The biggest reason I don't support such a push in the USA is because I think there are too many people who think like the parent comment, and will not allow such efforts to succeed. That's not the only reason, though.
Insert meme of Eric Andre shooting the government and then asking why the government would do such a thing.
In truth, governments around the world deliver a wide range of services at a wide level of efficiencies, and even here in the US, any reasonable comparison of government-provided services with their direct non-governmental equivalents reveals that the government does better than popular image suggests.
I mean, Fedex and UPS don't even deliver to many of the places the USPS does, and when they do, they charge more. Amazon relies heavily on USPS to deliver where they can't efficiently do so. And this is despite heavy-handed handicapping of the USPS in the form of onerous funding requirements by the same party who now tell you that the government is incapable of doing anything well.
There is public housing available in many countries around the world that doesn't carry the legacy of the USA's past efforts. Public housing that is desirable for more than just the economic reasons. Public housing doesn't have to mean total government control of housing. Really good public housing is possible if people want it to happen more than they want to score political points by strangling any efforts in that direction.
The biggest reason I don't support such a push in the USA is because I think there are too many people who think like the parent comment, and will not allow such efforts to succeed. That's not the only reason, though.