The Bottom Line Truth About the GOP: “…the private sector is broken, and Republicans won’t even acknowledge that fact.”

Steve Rundio, the Perspective Page editor of Tomah Journal, wrote a wonderful piece titled “Republicans could use help from private sector.”

The core selling point of a conservative political party is that the private sector is inherently more efficient, dynamic and ethical than the public sector. That’s a hard sell these days.

It was the private sector, not the government, that got the bright idea to insure bundled mortgages.

It’s a private-sector bureaucrat, not a government bureaucrat, who’s more likely to stand between a patient and the health care he or she needs.

It’s the private sector, not the government, that can change your credit card interest rate on a whim.It’s the private sector, not the government, that outsources call centers to India.

It’s a private-sector executive, not a government bureaucrat, who can leverage an eight-figure golden parachute for running a failed enterprise.

It’s a private-sector executive, not a government bureaucrat, who’s more likely to spend $1.2 million renovating an office.

It’s not a concession for Republicans to embrace the notion of civic virtue and acknowledge areas where the free market is producing outcomes most Americans reject (income distribution, for example). Conservative columnist David Brooks, however, implies Republicans don’t get it:“The Republicans talk more about the market than about society, more about income than quality of life. They celebrate capitalism, which is a means, and are inarticulate about the good life, which is the end.”

The problem is that much of the private sector is broken, and Republicans won’t even acknowledge that fact, much less acknowledge any of its consequences. Perhaps that’s appropriate. The revival of the Republican Party is, at its very core, a private-sector enterprise.

Thanks again to rocknetroots.blogspot.com for finding this nugget.