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[quote user="henry6"] I agree with you, NKP. Privatizing is not the panacea for everything our government does.  And private enterprise will agree with you on many things in this area, too.  I have seen buracracies in private business that were role models for inefficiency, indolence, and self preservation before even admiting there might be a customer or a product to be conisdered.  Waste and ignorance are not confined to government and its agencies.  Yes, even some business will find contracting out services is better than providing or producing themselve.  Wholesale outsourceing could be counter productive but can also be the perfect solution situtation by situation, product by product, company by company.  A mixed bag would be janitorial services.  Not a value added service but needed.  Some corporations have just hired outside companies to do it all while some smaller companies have found that they can keep their staff on board by having them sweep floors and empty trash cans.  Overall, outsourcing is not for every job and every company, but is an available and viable alternative in some cases.[/quote] Privatization of a government managed commercial enterprise and outsourcing select activities (non core) are different.  The first removes the activity from government operational control.  The second contracts ancillary competencies whilst keeping the core competencies in-house.  Unless the company in a janitorial company, sweeping floors and emptying wastebaskets along with the mailroom, to the extent there still is enough snail mail to justify it, are the activities that are outsourced.   Indeed, competitive corporations can and do have wasteful practices. If they don't fix them in time, they are out of business, unless they can get the federal government to reward them for their mistakes (GM and Chrysler). Who or what puts an inefficient government organization, i.e. Amtrak, out of business because of wasteful business practices?
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