re: #300 Sir John Barron

This is the kind of stuff that just goes on unmentioned in our public discourse. It’s completely off the radar screen.

Too many people have bought into the idea of privatization. They’ve been told the government can’t do anything right, so we should just contract the services to private companies.

Of course, they ignore the fact that the only way for private companies to do things cheaper and still make a profit is to cut corners, not provide equivalent service and to lie/cheat about the quality of the services they provide.

So we have private schools that opt out of standards testing. Prisons that allow rampant abuse, feed rotten food to prisoners and hire poorly trained guards. Background screeners who outright lie about how thoroughly the checks were performed (Hi Snowden!), mercenary outfits providing security and doing jobs that should be done by our military, etc.

I think we should privatize the jobs of the congress-critters who vote for such changes. Heck, I’m sure we could find people equally qualified who’d work for less than the salary currently provided to those idiot elected officials. I smell profit!