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>>Of course, this inefficiency plays well into the politics of one of the parties, who hold a religious belief that private enterprise is always more efficient than government, and so playing games like this that increase its inefficiency help to sell their case and get government functions sold off to private enterprise, who just so happen, in so many cases, to be some of the largest donors to campaigns of this particular party.

One party believes 92% of this and the other party believes 83% of this statement, for any non-American reading this.




Yes, this particular religious belief is widespread in both parties, but definitely considerably more prominent in one.

I believe there is a name for this belief, Mammonism comes to mind.




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