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. If they are cheaper, they typically "trimmed" the service, exploit their employees, or both. 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. For example, if the city bus service is "privatized", they trim costs by removing buses (completely or partially) or removing bus stops at clusters of houses that they don't consider profitable enough. Or the garbage collection enterprises working for the city "trim costs" by lowering the salaries of the employees doing the actual dirty work, to amounts nearing 600..800 euros. Hey, anybody knows how to empty a garbage can. We do not need to pay enough. Pay less, there is a lot of unemployed people to choose from, happy to work for less. That's free enterprise here. 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. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)