Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2014-06-13 12:14, Per Jessen wrote:
Daniel Bauer wrote:
Also perfect in privatizing profits and socializing losses. So many obligatory payments and enterprises getting paid by government just for sending out bills and collecting money, no risk, great earnings.
I would rather have private enterprise doing it than government - state-operated machinery always end up bloated beyond belief, imho.
And things done by private enterprise are done for a profit, obviously. The end result is that they are more expensive, if they do render the same service.
Sometime perhaps, but the government is often even more expensive. It is easy to pick on the private enterprise because their cost/accounting structures are easy to understand, whereas it is often virtually impossible with government ditto.
Here the politicians disassemble things that were done by the state/regional/local government and hire enterprises instead to do them. The result is that some entrepreneurs, friendly to the current government, get rich (ie, corruption), and the public not necessarily gets cheaper/better service.
That is not just in Spain, that happens in many places. The trick is to make sure the private enterprises are kept under strict obligations to deliver.
Public service is expensive because they have to give service to everybody, regardless costs. Buses on every small village, for instance, at reasonable schedules. They do not work for profit, personal or otherwise, but for giving service (so they work "at a loss", by definition). Of course, they can get lazy, or have too many people. So they need to be watched closely by the public.
Haha, which public is that? That only works in places like Switzerland where things are kept small and under public scrutiny, it certainly doesn't work where the public service structure is one gigantic monolithic machine. Anyway, enough, we're way OT. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (24.6°C) http://www.hostsuisse.com/ - dedicated server rental in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org