Your inability to reason is embarrassing.
McDonald's costs less than El Bulli. Is McDonald's food better than El Bulli?
I was specific- by any broad measure. That's means applying the same metric to the VA and a national insurance company. Like survival rates. Customer satisfaction. Shrinkage. Productivity. If more McDonald's customers survive one year after an MI than than El Bulli customers per million dollars, them I a surviving an MI contest, yes, McDonald's is better.
How cute. How did that work out for the USSR?
BENGHAZIIIIIII! BENGHAZIIIIIIII!
What is a "private corporation?"
Seriously? You are pretending to be an expert in commerce, and you don't know what a private corporation is! And you're not embarrassed to ask me instead of Googling it?! http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation
A corporation is something that you as an individual can buy shares in and collect part of the profits for yourself.
You actually don't know what a corporation is! Why are you pretending to be an expert?
So, if you think these profits are so amazing, why don't you just buy shares and collect them?
I think I argued that profits AREN'T amazing in this case. Let me check... Yep, I said the opposite.
Too bad that when they had to account for earmarked pensions that they promised, their profits became illusionary.
That's not on their P & L, you fucking imbecile. When they put their MASSIVE profits into a trust fund so their employees get dignified compensation instead of wage-slavery, THEY DIDN'T LOSE THE MONEY. They made A QUARTER OF A BILLION DOLLARS IN PROFIT in one quarter last year. How much did USPS pay it's retired rural letter carriers?
What do Hannity's balls taste like?
UPS remains in the black because they don't promise payouts that they cannot account for. If they did such things, you'd be calling for their heads on a pike when they couldn't pay up.
The difference is USPS ACTUALLY CAN AND DOES PAY UP. UPS is in the black because they abuse temps and part-time workers with low wages and no benefits, externalizing their cost to the taxpayers in a form of corporate welfare. And because they suck at the government's tit by outsourcing to the more efficient USPS. And because they don't deliver to Barrow, Alaska on Saturdays. Is that what kind of healthcare you want? Some of the people some of the time, and fuck the workers?
Which receive massive subsidies paid for by taxes.
That's the point, you stooge. We can pay a private corporation to do a shitty job for fewer people, and skim off a piece of the money they get from the public, or have a government agency provide more and better services for less money paid for by taxes. There is no difference between paying taxes for "subsidies" and paying premiums for insurance except the name on the "Pay to" line of the cheque. If your corporate masters are so great, why are there no private subways?
Which have price tags as ridiculous as hospitals.
Why the fuck would you compare public universities to private hospitals? You're actually trying to be as stupid as possible, aren't you. This is what you learned from O'Reilly. Tuition at private schools, $31,000 (excludes costs paid by endowments and donors). Public schools $23,000 (includes "subsidies".).
Which list ketchup as a serving of vegetables.
Which applies to Aramark, too, you fucking retard. Are you saying corporate school lunch providers are bad? Is that your point? You don't want corporations to provide school lunches because corporations consider ketchup a vegetable? You don't bother to think before you blather, do you?
Which, when considering inflation and real interest rates, is actually a loss.
A profit is never a loss, idiot. And since interest rates were close to zero, there was no loss on opportunity cost. And, inflation acted on the loan proceeds AND PAYMENTS. You watch Fox News, but you don't understand it, do you? So many big words. "Inside job." "I was in the Faulklands war." "Ebola is coming."