[quote=CA renter]From everything I’ve seen, privatization does NOT result in savings for taxpayers.[/quote]
Well, I actually agree with you a bit here. Just because a private organization is doing the work, it is still funded by the government. That really isn’t “privitization” to me. Privatization would be eliminating garbage service and making people buy their own from a private service.
I’m not a corporation and I’m dead against public unions. Has nothing to do with propaganda. Public unions are truly horrible. That isn’t to say private contractors are not.
To me, the unions look exactly like a private corporation – both act in their own best interest and not in the interest of the taxpayers. The only difference is corporations admit they are in it for profit while unions try to pretend to have some noble purpose.
The crux of both problems is the fact that decisin-makers in the government have power over too much money and they are going to give it to their friends – be they union or corp. Beaurocrats have control of massive amounts of funding but each individual beurocrat only needs a little for themselves to be bought. So, with a small investment a private organization (union or corp) can spend a few hundred thousand buying the right politician to get millions in return.
The answer is to run less money through the government so neither the unions nor the contrators can buy their own politicians.
I would just like to see you admit that a public employee union is really no different from a corporate contractor. They just use different agruments to justify why the government should send the money their way.
