Comment by wturner
2 days ago
Their agenda is to intentionally make government dysfunctional as a catalyst to privatize everything. It's working.
2 days ago
Their agenda is to intentionally make government dysfunctional as a catalyst to privatize everything. It's working.
Problem is there is no money in this for the private market, so the government will have to pay 10x more to get a patchwork of private entities to do the work the government was already doing.
If we don't get these people out and revert all they did there won't be much of a future for this country that isn't becoming another failed economy with a few places being a little bit better than the others. The US will be a third world country soon.
Yes, the US Federal Government, famous for doing things efficiently and cheaply when no private contractors are involved.
The quiet parks of government really are, privatizing the VA was looked into several times but the numbers were prohibitive.
It took me a while to realize there’s just less money to be made when the system actually works.
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Some things cannot be done cheaply or extremely efficiently but needs to be done.
One of the reason for governments to exist is to deliver services to the communities that, by essence, should not be seen as primarily a source of revenue, but enabling communities to thrive in order to generate an environment where the generation of wealth for the community is facilitated.
And tell me how actually efficient and cost saving having many entities that have as sole mission to generate profit really helped (take a look at privatisation of any entities that were of public interest and the good that it did long term... Spoilers It didn't...)
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I feel like there's important context here, such as this company was founded before Trump entered office, and the government weather balloons were so inefficient that a private company thought they could compete with free data.
Government weather data is exactly the kind of thing that should be private.
Next up is the postal service.