very well stated.

Let me add a couple of points

• Any function that a State has to do should be done by the State itself...not by paid agents. This is doubly true in security functions. There is a difference in someone who has sworn an oath, and someone who just passed a piss test (although I understand the POV of people who would argue that point)
• Privatization of State functions does not ,in the long, run save the State any money. Privatization is a vehicle for kickback. Mr personal experience was in working for a company that serviced our states welfare cards. Over time, the contract as a whole was split into many different contracts, each with a different company servicing it. You eventually had the exact same amount of Indians doing the work, but the number of Chiefs went up by six fold (IIRC), Chiefs with very high salaries. All th Chiefs were buddy-buddy with one politican or burrocrat or another.

And that company used to throw some lavish Christmas parties with the taxpayer's money.

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