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Outsourcing State and Local Government Services is About Looting
by Yves Smith, Naked Capitalism
For decades, citizens have been sold on
the mantra that the hungry private sector can do a better and cheaper
job of providing services than "inefficient" government. Now it is true
that there were some badly run government entities that have done better
when privatized (the poster child is British Telecom). But particularly
on the state and local level, where voters demand a high level of
accountability, this premise was always dubious.
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