What is best left to government and not private enterprise?

Right wing billionaires and the management of multinational corporations have spent billions of dollars over the past 40 years cultivating a network of right-wing think tanks and PR firms all bent at moving the American electorate toward beliefs that will work to further enrich themselves. They have worked relentlessly to demonize anything government, and build a national meme that government at all levels is inherently unable to do anything correctly. Of course, by pushing this meme widely enough, the businesses they own or invest in will profit massively as we dismantle all government and privatize what used to be public.

Just imagine how much the military industrial complex would benefit if we totally privatized the military. But who seriously thinks turning the entire defense department over to private industry like Blackwater nee Xe nee Academi would actually save us money? Do you believe that the Posse Comitatus Act, already seriously in question, would be respected in any way by a private, for profit corporation which could maximize profits by just kicking doors down and taking whatever it would be profitable to take?

Let’s begin the badly needed national discussion of what is rightly best left to private enterprise, and what needs to be publicly funded and controlled. What are your thoughts?