Here we go again….if you think privatization of public services will be a great boon to you, let me tell you what will happen.
#1: If the government saves any money with privatizing it is NOT passed on to the taxpayer. They hire more contractors to do more of the same. The pay is low, the turnover is high, and there are all kinds of snafus (people get fired after 6 months as it turns out they are not US citizens, and various other problems of not being qualified) Guess what? We are still paying for this—it is out of a “different budget.”
#2: The contractor makes the bucks, becomes wealthy on the taxpayers money. (Prisons, anyone? Those are mostly privatized)
#3: From what I have seen, the contractors because they pay so little/poor benes/no pensions (after all the contract recipient needs to line his pockets) hires substandard employees. The government has very little supervision over the contractors and amazingly when a bad contractor is up for renewal—they get the contract again! It is just easier for administration than to choose a new company. So bad work gets rewarded.
Most government workers are not the abusers that get noted in the media.
