The argument for privatizing the military.

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Republicans are smart. They realize that private companies are able to provide goods and services far more efficiently than government bureaucrats. The government fails at everything it tries to accomplish. Government is *not* the solution, it is the *problem*.

I have finally wised-up and realized that they are right.

That's why I'm making the radical proposal that we privatize the military.

We already have para-mercenary corporations in place, like Blackwater for instance. All we need to do to turn things over is to dissolve the "government" military that we are currently supporting, use the budget savings to issue a voucher to every man woman and child in America. (Except illegal aliens of course, but I digress.)

That voucher can then be used to purchase national defense from Blackwater, or any other of a host of competing national defense companies. The corporations will take the federal dollars represented by the vouchers, and they will design a superior "corporate-style" plan for defending their subscribers from outside invasion, terrorist attacks, disruption of international trade, etc.

By giving consumers of national defense a choice of providers, the new system will utilize the power of markets to insure far better outcomes than our current top-down one-size-fits-all government plan.

We have a post office national defense, when we could have a FedEx military.

I'm thinking this would work. Somebody call Rand Paul right away.