[lbo-talk] Privatization is more expensive...

[Wojtek S]

It does not surprise me a bit.  The cost saving rhetoric is bullshit
thrown on the subject to cover up two facts.  First is that
outsourcing lines up the pocket of an army of exec and professionals
who bribe err... "make political contributions" to political parties,
which in turn use the awarding of contracts as political patronage -
the time honored practice of the so called democratic governance.  The
second fact is that outsourcing reduces, if not altogether eliminates,
the liability of of political appointees.  Private contractors can
subvert not just public policy to a far greater degree and with much
greater impunity than government agencies can dream of.

In other words, outsourcing or "third party government" as policy
wonks call it, is a marriage of a dysfunction of the democratic
process with the outright subversion of it, officiated by high priests
of economics and political science.

Wojtek

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 6:30 PM,  <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
> ...study shows.
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/study-privatizing-government-doesnt-actually-save-money/2011/09/15/gIQA2rpZUK_blog.html
>
> I'm shocked. Shocked I say.
>
> Duh!
>
> Joanna
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