[texastoo]

Your link for the Reagan administration and PPPs would be appreciated.

In other words, finding a clip of Bill Clinton talking about them, or the UN writing about them (recently) doesn't amount to much. Actually, it doesn't amount to anything at all.

I guess we can just sweep this part of history under the rug or maybe rewrite it.(sarcasm)

[1rudeboy]

I'm sorry, I thought the Reagan Administration's efforts to reduce the scope of government interference in our daily lives could be stipulated on this website. And your sarcasm is way off-base. I'm not "re-writing" anything. In fact, I'm arguing that PPP's have existed longer than you realize.

[texastoo]

Will be back later.

[1rudeboy]

After about fifteen minutes on the ‘net (and taking time to make some tea and watch the snow fall), I found the following. Looks like the concept of privatizing public functions as a policy goes back to 1955, but I’ll let someone else to the legwork.

The Federal Government shall rely on commercially available sources to provide commercial products and services. In accordance with the provisions of this Circular and its Supplement, the Government shall not start or carry on any activity to provide a commercial product or service if the product or service can be procured more economically from a commercial source.
OMB Circular No. A-76, August 4, 1983 (revised 1999).

Note the date(s) of the Circular.