Liberty Pen: John Stossel- 'Free People Vs Government'

Source:Liberty Pen- Reason Magazine reporter Lisa Kennedy.

"Who is more efficient at performing a task? Government or free people acting in their own self-interest? Liberty Pen." 

A Libertarian is supposed to be someone who believes that free adults should be left alone to live their own lives, as long as they are not hurting innocent people with what they are doing. Liberals believe in the same thing, which is one reason why I'm a Liberal. They also believe government should only do, what the private sector can't do for themselves, or can't do as well for themselves. Liberals believe in the same thing. Again why I'm a Liberal, but we differ on what government can and should do. 

An Anarchist essentially believes in no law, no government that people can do whatever they want to and that they should be held accountable for what they are doing by the people, but not by government. But if you listen to so-called Libertarians lately, like John Stossel who I do respect, or Peter Schiff who I respect less, you would think that all government is incompetent and that it can't do anything well. They haven't been sounding like they are pro-limited government, or pro-small government, which is different. But they've been sounding like they are anti-government all together. 

In this video John Stossel said there's no evidence that government can do anything better than the private sector and he posed that question to his audience. And someone said that the government military is better than a private military. And Stossel said: "There's no evidence that the military is more efficient than private contractors. But he's not sure if he wants a private military." Well, if private contractors aren't more efficient than the military, then why not privatize the military as well? 

I'm not a mindreader, obviously (hopefully that's not a newsflash for anyone) but it sounds like even John Stossel believes that government should be doing things instead of the private sector, even if he argues the opposite publicly.