I don't particularly care either way. It could be privately owned; the gov't can keep nat'l parks. But certainly that is not in their Constitutionally outlined powers.
Why do you insist on an answer, so you can be appalled? I already know how you think: gov't should own everything. I get it.
Government is ultimately the referee. Think of the nfl. The poor are passing out peanuts in the stands for peanuts. We are players playing with/against the corporations. The corporations now own the teams and the league. And they they tell the politicians or referees how to decide.
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Yes. In capitalism some people will make vast sums of money and some will not. It still offers the most freedom to the most people and has lifted vast quantities of the world out of poverty.
Please do not tell me you're an actual Socialist. If you are, and are in MI, you must live in Ann Arbor. Gack
No I’m not a socialist. But I did experience what made America great. You won’t like it. It was unions.
But then bush sr created nafta and that was the beginning of the end for unions. Clinton put worker protections in nafta but bush 2 removed them.
Unions and the new deal created the middle class the world had never seen before. Do you think free market capitalism created the middle class? It didn’t. Labor laws, unemployment insurance, social security, none of these things were created by capitalism but they are what created the middle class that existed till about Reagan.
Oh listen, no doubt--in the Industrial Revolution there was a time that corporations needed reining in. Long work days, horrible pay, terrible conditions. That is precisely WHY gov't oversight is important. However. The pendulum swings, doesn't it? For a while the balance was just right and, yes, the middle class was born and was thriving. And then the unions got too powerful, too demanding and INSANELY too political, in the case of my profession (teaching). At my husband's old workplace, he was not allowed to empty his small trash can. It was detailed as a "union job". Even if it was full to overflowing.
That's what happened then--the unions became ridiculous, they just did. Some balance was necessary.