The argument for privatizing the military.

[dawg]

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.

[notesdev]

1. All the profitable parts are already privatized

it's called the "military industrial complex"

The parts that aren't private are the parts that would have extreme liability to private owners... people dying, getting wounded, etc.

[dawg]

2. Well, maybe we need to do tort-reform too.

Give the private-run military services special legal protections so the stinking trial lawyers don't ruin the whole thing. You know they would just pass the costs of those big settlements on to us.

[Scuba]

3. Great tongue-in-cheek counter to the Medicare voucher program Paul Ryan want to use to kill grandma.

[Permanut]

4. You're onto something here, Dawg...

I think I'd want to pool my voucher with my neighbors so we could get a charter army.