It seems nothing that government touches is exempt from WFCI. This tar
baby is out of control. There is not a single function provided since
Katrina that couldn't have been better provided by private enterprise. When will people wise up and stop assigning more and more functions to government?
- For
example as the schools crumble, why not separate them from government
entirely. Provide a 100% private system. Government's only role ought
to be to pay tuition for juveniles who can't afford it themselves as a transition strategy. Government could provide an assist by getting a
high tech national PreK-12 curriculum started and creating the National
Association of Schools that would support that curriculum in the future.
- For
hospitals and health care do the same. Privatize those few that aren't
already private. Eliminate government regulations. Let them be
competitive. Grant them relief from crazy tort litigation. Doctors, hopsitals and nurses try their best to obtain good outcomes. Sometimes they fail, sometimes they make mistakes. Suing them is not the answer. Track outcomes statistically and revoke or restrict licenses as indicated. Government subsidies may be needed as a transition strategy to help those who can't help
themselves.
- Garbage collection. Ray Nagin has shown us
clearly, by counter example, that privately contracting for this service would be far better
than letting our government do it for us. Private collection companies
would offer their services in neighborhoods, districts, and cities.
Citizens would buy these services directly in an open market like they
buy telephone service from whichever provider offers the service and
price that suits them best.
- Utilities like cable TV,
phones, electric power and so on all benefit from deregulation and
competition. Municipal water supplies, drainage services, insect
control and sewerage might be more difficult to outsource without
government intervention, but regulation might be better than ownership
of these utilities.
- Levees and environmental protection
are being handled so well by the US Army Corps of Engineers that I
couldn't fathom why you would want to administer them differently.
- Roads
and bridges might actually be a viable government service. But what if
all that gasoline tax money was not collected at all and the oil
companies and real estate developers used profits to pay for road
construction instead of some federal bureaucrat. Don't you think the
money would be spent more efficiently.
- Private police are becoming a popular trend. Private security
firms are often poorly trained and staffed and give the entire industry
a bad reputation. Imagine what a professional, highly experienced, well
compensated police outsourcer could do to assist municipalities
struggling with crime.
- The rest of the Criminal Justice System as well could be
privatized. Politicization does not make the District Attorney, Judges, Clerks and Public Defenders one whit
more fair or effective. Contracts for these services with nationally recognized firms would make more sense. Regonalizing follows naturally as firms prove their excellence and produce results.
- Firefighters could be outsourced like traveling nurses.
Experienced firefighters could be contracted to departments needing
assistance. Many firefighters live on site at fire stations anyway so
this seems like a natural opportunity.
- Insurance regulation has been an abomination. Three of the last four insurance commissioners are in jail. Insurance is not being written south of I-12. Rates are up, deductibles too. A plan is being investigated to further subsidize insurance. The problem is that a reasonable man would not build in certain areas. If they do, they should not expect someone else to be willing to bear the risk.
- And so on and so on...