Hank, can you sit there with a straight face and tell me private businesses can do better with all the private companies in trouble right now? That'd be a good one!

Try this... some Sunday night, shut down that bureaucratic boondoggle and see what happens Monday morning. I promise you, you'll be pleading for it to be back in service ASAP.

It's funny how the federal government can actually run a military that is the best in the world and few complain about how our government keeps screwing THAT up. Also, I rarely hear anyone complain about their fire departments being incompetant. There are many more examples of government run functions in our daily lives that people rarely think to criticize.