This is such a vital point, illustrated yet again by the Afghanistan news. The Left's view of government as inherently more virtuous than the private sector gets it exactly backward. In the private sector, lying to the public is a crime; in government, it's standard procedure.
It bears repeating, every single day throughout this election: if ObamaCare had been a private sector scheme, everyone from CEO Barack Obama on down would currently be in prison for fraud, or looking at a lifetime of ruinous lawsuits and fines.
Instead, the ObamaCare scam artists got rich and powerful beyond imagination - look at Obama's new house! No price whatsoever was paid for their fraud and deception, even though their own party now universally agrees the program was a bust and its promises were lies.
"Those corporate guys would love to lie and cheat even more!" the socialists cry. Yes, and that's the point: they live within a set of rules that make it criminal to do so, or to waste and steal shareholder resources on a FRACTION of the scale Big Gov does every single day.
It is far better to put your trust in people and institutions that pay a heavy price for fraud, theft, and waste - and, most crucially, need to worry about losing your business! - than in government bureaucracies that lie constantly and can never go bankrupt.
The bald truth is that our modern system of government would literally collapse overnight if it were forced to be truthful with the public, to anything remotely approaching the degree required of private companies. The federal government could not withstand a financial audit.
And putting so much power and money in the hands of inherently dishonest government has in turn made Big Business more deceptive and secretive that it otherwise would be. It's a culture of contagious arrogance and deception, with political power for sale to high bidders.
Today's socialists tell us the fusion of Big Gov and Big Biz is the road to virtue, but the exact opposite is demonstrably true. We need to separate them and make government both smaller and more honest - two changes that can ONLY be made in unison. /end
