I'm just a simple country boy, and some of these high falootin' concepts just confuse me. But it does stand to reason that the numbers of dollars available are finite. Adding in a profit motive means that money that would have been available to provide services is now going to the corporation. That problem is just as bad as the unchecked bureaucracy running amok. It is simply a different dragon. The reason is that the profit becomes the key, not the services. It is what drives the beast. And not just profit, but the goal becomes maximizing the profit, which results in fewer services. I have seen this thing where the "for profit" hires minimum wage workers who have no motive of their own, the services deteriorate and the cost over time goes up. The corporation makes their money but overall one had a loss of service. One example was the park reservation system in Michigan.

All this is not to say that we can go back to unchecked, and unaccountable government bureaucracy. But I agree with Frank Hamilton. The whole thing is a false predicate. It is based on the lie that their is nothing that government can do that private industry can't do better. How many examples you want? Taken a look at trucking since deregulation. Almost any of the regulatory groups that have gone on the honor system once enforcement was removed.

Mick