you can pay private citizens to perform most services you need. your services can only really be interrupted if you are totally dependednt on the government. i cant envision a scenario where you couldnt buy a service on the free market. in that sense, there is no "transition".
It's not that simple when you consider the millions of citizens for which these agencies currently administer services. It's a lot more complex than you are making it out to be.
The biggest problem I see in this would be keeping the same level of service in rural areas. Would a private company be willing to deliver mail daily in South Dakota or Montana? More than likely it isn't profitable to maintain the current level of service to a huge geographic portion of the country, therefore you wouldn't expect a company to voluntarily maintain it. then again I guess they could charge you $20 to mail a post card to the middle of nowhere.
im sure its a very complex issue but its the same thing told to the dude who found FedEX, fred smith, when he did his thesis and was given a D. his professor said it would never work and said no one in their right mind would use this given the current mail system in place. when the bidding began and private industry took over they would be forced to do it completely efficiently and it would more than likely be great. when such things happen, regardless the obstacles, it works itself out exponentially better in the long run. this would be no different. the transition would take care of itself.
no it isnt. if you want a service, you hire somebody to do it. if you need disaster insurance, you buy it. if a hurricane comes, dont sit in your house and drown and wait for the feds.
I'm not saying that it will never work by any means. I just think that the transition would be more difficult than some are estimating when you consider how immense the infrastructure of things like the USPS and DMV are. What do you tell the people that have no means of transportation?
1. hitchike. i'd be willing to bet you could have easily hitchiked out. i woulda picked you up if i was driving. even if you are black and scary. 2. bicycle to baton rouge, it isnt far. 3. dont live in new orleans. (even growing up in baton rouge i heard a zillion times that new orleans was gonna get hammered just like this) 4. dont use the force of the government to force me to help you when you are too stupid to provide for yourself. i suspect private voluntary charities will have tons of resources for your lazy ass anyways. i do not like the assumption that a service will not be provided unless the government provides it. thats where you get inuto trouble, depending on the government.
My friend the former postmaster tells me that there are 40 post offices in a 60-mile radius of Alexandria. Every small unincorporated village has one. Fed-Ex and Brown deliver daily to the same people from a single office in Alexandria. There is waste in the post office, for sure. But 37 cents beats he hell out of what UPS would charge for a first-class letter, I expect. At least the PO is non-profit. There are always trade-offs.
