I agree, and I would love to see more state managed, long term thinking enterprise. The problem I have seen first hand though is that we've somehow established that state worker = impossible to fire. I've seen teachers literally hit students and not be fired. I've seen unions in state owned transport companies prevent truck drivers from changing a lightbulb by themselves, forcing a truck offline for a whole day and missing all deliveries. I've seen employees prevented from lifting a modest box to their own desk, having to wait for a "trained porter". This is the main reason so many politicians are wary of public enterprise. If we could tackle the worst abuses of unions then we would be in a much better position to have stronger public enterprise.