Posted on 04/11/2014 4:31:21 AM PDT by servo1969
One thing that us non-brain dead conservatives have realized after the “privatization” experiments of the last 20 years is that privatization is not a panacea and that government has amazing abilities to corrupt private enterprise that gets involved with it.
Increasingly, these “private” companies like Booz Allen Hamilton of Snowden fame are acting as for-profit arms of the gov’t. It’s harder and harder to tell where government ends and “private contractors” begin.
Any honest assessment of this phenomenon will note that the process started under Clinton, but accelerated and reached monstrous proportions under Bush II, especially in matters pertaining to the Iraq war, an orgy of corruption that has still not be properly autopsied.
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