Privatizing the Public Pocket
This was the administration that was going to revolutionize government by privatizing damned near everything and they’ve made a pretty good move in that direction.
This was the administration that was going to revolutionize government by privatizing damned near everything and they’ve made a pretty good move in that direction. To hear them tell it, government was the problem and private business and industry the solution.
Made sense. Every generation from boomers to bloomers has their personal axe to grind concerning how dumb government agencies are and how smart the private sector proves itself to be.
But it ain’t necessarily so. To paraphrase George Gershwin,
Dey tells all you chillun
De gov’ment's a villun,
But it ain't necessarily so
In the enthusiasm of the early days, Donald Rumsfeld decided privatizing would enable a war without a draft (and save a gazillion as well). He sub-contracted out the war in Afghanistan to the Reserves. That worked so well, in the eyes of The Beholder, that …