On 06/13/2014 06:14 AM, Per Jessen wrote:
I would rather have private enterprise doing it than government - state-operated machinery always end up bloated beyond belief, imho.
In Ontario, we have experience with private enterprise taking tax payers for a ride, often providing poorer service and not always doing as good a job. In all cases, the employees are paid less the main aim of the company seems to be taking as much money as possible. The worst example is a company set up to run the air ambulance service, but the quality of that service dropped like a rock, to the point the provincial coroner has determined that company was responsible for several deaths, due to late or no transport. If all a private enterprise does is take public money for the owners and does not provide a significant improvement, then we're better off without them. This is sadly the case for many of them. I'd rather the money go to "overpaid" employees than someone who's aim is to take as much as he can from the public purse, while delivering as little as possible. Another example where this has killed is the town of Walkerton, Ontario. After the government relieved itself responsibility of water testing, downloading it to the municipalities and private labs, there was an e-coli outbreak that killed 7 (IIRC) and caused 2300 to get sick. Many of those suffered permanent injury. One of the reasons this was so bad was that the people doing the work, while they worked for the town, did not tell anyone about the problem and the lab was under no obligation to tell anyone else of the contaminated water. There are other examples of how "great" privatization is. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org