US Politics | AMERICAblog News: UK private security chief sees mass privatization of British police

This is insane. Of course, the whole privatization push is insane. How anyone expects taking a non-profit public function, adding a profit layer, and providing the service for LESS money to actually work is beyond me. All one has to do is look at healthcare. What is the lowest cost of administration healthcare service? Medicare, by orders of magnitude. 

 And most government services are government services for the clear and simple reason that they need to be run for a large mass of people at all times whether or not they make a profit. The few services that, in the past, were parcelled out to private entities, or allowed to remain private, were all regulated and treated as utilities. 

I wish to hell someone had blown the Chicago School of Business off the face of the earth about 30-40 years ago (preferably while St Ronny was visiting) :) This whole business good/government evil thing might have been nipped in the bud before America turned into Thailand East.

Private Prison Corporation Offers Cash In Exchange For State Prisons

Privatizing prisons makes as much sense to me as privatizing military support functions or espionage functions or.... wait... what? we did what? 

Private Prison Corporation Offers Cash In Exchange For State Prisons

They're coming after them.... it's their biggest wet dream

Daily Kos: Beware Republicans bearing Medicare, Social Security privatization plans