[news] Outsourcing Government

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

...[Private] contractors treat the state as an ATM, withdrawing massive contracts to perform core functions like securing borders and interrogating prisoners, and making deposits in the form of campaign contributions. As President Bush's former budget director, Mitch Daniels, put it: "The general idea that the business of government is not to provide services but to make sure that they are provided seems self-evident to me."

  


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