Comments on: Is the Recovery Act Stimulating Privatization? http://dirtdiggersdigest.org/archives/893 chronicling corporate misbehavior (and how to research it) Sat, 24 Mar 2012 23:44:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: jharry3 http://dirtdiggersdigest.org/archives/893/comment-page-1#comment-2467 jharry3 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:12:41 +0000 http://dirtdiggersdigest.org/?p=893#comment-2467 Hopefully privatization is encouraged. Anything the government touchs costs way too much. We just found out that each Cash for Clunkers grant of $4500 cost the taxpayers $24,000 in government admin costs. This sort of overburden is systemic in government run programs. Private industry can always do better. The argument comes from the progressives who hate the fact that their favorite social programs, which they believe should be covered by their imaginary benevolent government, can be more cheaply run by private contractors. Public schools are an example where admin costs end up eating all the money and we end up with horrible schools with per student cost higher than private schools - which produce a better educated student by the way. Tutition vouchers are considered hateful by teachers unions and the left but the competition they introduce force, by "the invisible hand" improvements in the school systems which have that option. The curriculum control argument is not about curriculum, its about control. Hopefully privatization is encouraged.
Anything the government touchs costs way too much.

We just found out that each Cash for Clunkers grant of $4500 cost the taxpayers $24,000 in government admin costs.

This sort of overburden is systemic in government run programs.
Private industry can always do better.
The argument comes from the progressives who hate the fact that their favorite social programs, which they believe should be covered by their imaginary benevolent government, can be more cheaply run by private contractors.

Public schools are an example where admin costs end up eating all the money and we end up with horrible schools with per student cost higher than private schools – which produce a better educated student by the way.
Tutition vouchers are considered hateful by teachers unions and the left but the competition they introduce force, by “the invisible hand” improvements in the school systems which have that option.

The curriculum control argument is not about curriculum, its about control.

]]> By: PrivatizationWatch.Org http://dirtdiggersdigest.org/archives/893/comment-page-1#comment-2453 PrivatizationWatch.Org Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:55:38 +0000 http://dirtdiggersdigest.org/?p=893#comment-2453 [...] of privatization and contracting-out of functions previously performed by public sector workers. Dirt Diggers Digest FL: Florida's own Halliburton? ?This summer, the Juice brought you the troubling tale of the [...] [...] of privatization and contracting-out of functions previously performed by public sector workers. Dirt Diggers Digest FL: Florida's own Halliburton? ?This summer, the Juice brought you the troubling tale of the [...]

]]> By: Is the Recovery Act Stimulating Privatization? « http://dirtdiggersdigest.org/archives/893/comment-page-1#comment-2442 Is the Recovery Act Stimulating Privatization? « Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:53:39 +0000 http://dirtdiggersdigest.org/?p=893#comment-2442 [...] Reposted from the Dirt Diggers Digest [...] [...] Reposted from the Dirt Diggers Digest [...]

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