* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040326 09:43]: > Why leave out construction? Public buildings and roads are all built by
Because bulding isn't a long term service. Running a post office is, etc. > private companies. It works well. Private companies are subsidized to > deliver services for in-home personal care, as well as care in nursing > homes. Private parties also deliver quality day care services for Yeah, and they all defraud medicare daily. Double digit growth yearly in costs! > children and elderly. Section 8 subsidized housing is also delivered by > private enterprise. The system of public Colleges and Universites in the > US is not run by private business, but the competition among them for the Yeah, but neither is it run by the state. The University of Minnesota is constitutionally mandated to be operated seperately from the state. UMN is not part of the state, legally. > best students has the same effect. People can choose a good school over a > bad school. I will acknowledge in advance that there are abuses in > these systems, but overall they work. > transit is because the union has chosen to cripple the system by striking. [... anti-union rant] IMO, if you don't like the unions, why not try and make them as important as teachers and not allow them to strike by law? Privitzation isn't going to fix that. Even Southwest Transit has unionized drivers -- they just happen to be Teamsters -- not ATU. Last time they tried to break the strike back in the '90s Teamsters threatened to stop working citywide. -- Scott Dier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> KC0OBS http://www.ringworld.org/ -- http://www.railworks.org/ -- http://publictransportation.org/ -- Stop "playing political splat ball," support the Northstar Train! _______________________________________________ Twin Cities Metropolitan Issues Forum http://www.e-democracy.org/tcmetro Rules: Sign posts with real name. You may not post more than twice a day.
