>> This is just a single instance of public-private partnership
>> which is the foundation of neoliberalism. It is the main
>> vehicle for the socialization of costs and privatization of
>> publicly subsidized profits.
>
> I always thought it was really just the main mechanism for avoiding
> pension costs, because even private companies love this idea. Why not
> have your in-house IT departement build the city-wide payroll system?
> Because when they are done, they will loaf around for 15 more years and
> then collect a pension while they go off to their second career.
>
> Why does Microsoft have so many contractors? Because they have to treat
> their real employees much better than some contractor will treat his.
>
> /jordan
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Speaking of Microsoft, P3's, screwing workers and 'the public', they've inserted some of their toadies onto the King County Council in WA and upper mgmt. there and are sucking larges sums of public dollars off the balance sheets of the IT and other departments like a Remora on Meth. The unions are struggling to come up with a coherent counter strategy. Gettin' uglier by the day.