Reply #116: I've seen some gold plated government offices [View All]

My point is that anyone who thinks that putting the government in charge of a particular line of business is going to eliminate waste and fraud is deluding themselves. I'm not saying those things don't exist in the private sector. However, one could make a reasonable argument that expecting the government to effectively regulate itself may be even more wishful thinking than expecting the government to effectively regulate private enterprise.

As for Douglas, I know that the issue was the scope of executive authority. The OP called for nationalizing and since the chances of that being done by Congress are nil, I figured it was safe to assume the OP was calling for executive action.