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Originally Posted by crockett
Odd you must have never heard of the US post office. Freddie or Fanny Mae. They are all three businesses that the US govt owns.
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One is a publicly traded, publicly owned company and the other is one whose existence is explicitly authorized by the Constitution. The government will not be selling and trading commodities no matter how much you try to wish it into being.
What does that stupid shit have to do with the stupidity of believing we'll be paving roads with solar panels in our lifetimes? Nothing.
If you guys ran the world, you'd be trying to power it on hugs, wishful thinking and rainbows. However, the real world is bound and constrained by economic realities which have to be addressed.