{"id":2788,"date":"2016-01-03T15:02:26","date_gmt":"2016-01-03T22:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/?p=2788"},"modified":"2016-01-03T15:02:26","modified_gmt":"2016-01-03T22:02:26","slug":"the-role-of-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/uncategorized\/the-role-of-government","title":{"rendered":"The role of government"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, I read this petitition on private vs public ATC system<\/A> and I don’t honestly know which side I’m on.<\/p>\n

I feel like government should supply the services that all of us need. I do feel like if a private corperation can prove that it does a better job, then it should be free to provide the service instead, but my definition on what means a better job might be different than most people’s. For example, a better job in air traffic control is NOT cheaper. It’s more reliable, more efficient, safer, and better engineered. The last thing I want is people cutting costs on things like ATC – if you must cut costs, cut them on military equipment, which I’d rather in general didn’t work correctly.<\/p>\n

(If you’re under the impression that I don’t think people should be shooting at each other, bombing each other, or otherwise hurting each other, you have much to go on. Now, I need to include a caveat here. If you’re in a video game – even a full 3D immersive one that looks totally real – or if you’re into pain and being scared – I do not want to take away your war experience. I’m talking about the rest of us here. For those of you who enjoy that sort of game, by all means, go play.. although I’m not quite sure just yet why I should be paying for your games when we haven’t even met the hierarchy of needs for some of my friends)<\/p>\n

(Yes, I really do think people should be free to opt in to war. If we’re eternal and immortal creatures, we’re going to want to try lots of things. It’s just that I don’t think the rest of us should be forced to live with your choices.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, I read this petitition on private vs public ATC system and I don’t honestly know which side I’m on. I feel like government should supply the services that all of us need. I do feel like if a private corperation can prove that it does a better job, then it should be free to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2788"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2789,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2788\/revisions\/2789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}