[baddox]

> Say what you will about government programs, they're going to be more consistent than what you get pushing the problem out to millions of individual actors.

What I'll say is that I think this is a ludicrous assumption to make, for the same reason that it would be ludicrous to assume that government food distribution or automobile production would be more consistent than pushing the problem out to millions of individual actors.

[acdha]

> What I'll say is that I think this is a ludicrous assumption to make,

You should read for comprehension next time: I'm not saying anything about efficiency, merely that consistency is an odd angle to pick.