[EggsAckley]

My personal favorite: Parks professionals are alarmed by another plan announced this spring. It would turn over 1,708 federal positions in the National Park Service to private contractors, mostly jobs involving maintenance or security. In an internal memo last month, park service director Mainella said this switch would cost $3 million just to study and that that would come at the expense of other park-service priorities.

The poor souls would be working for private bosses, EGAD! the humiliation, the insult, loss of an overly-cushy government pension.

[eBelasco]

Clearly National Parks should be privatized in whole. Not just the contracting out of menial jobs away from lazy civil servants.

[Dahoser]

The proof of privatization's benefits can be seen along interstate highways such as the NJ Turnpike where the rest areas are now maintained by the likes of McDonald's and Burger King instead of the state. These companies cannot afford to have people associate them with needing a hazmat suit to enter a bathroom because they'll lose business overall. The state never had such concerns and it showed. And smelled.