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it is a significant safety issue, and also offers great potential for financially-motivated misuse.
In other areas, I guess I don't understand the distinction between outsourced and privatized. Maybe it's a continuum? The examples that come to mind are ...
Janitorial services in schools have been "outsourced", and gone is the in-house custodian who took a personal interest in every broken waterfountain or graffitied wall (and earned a pension from the school district).
Running prisons has definitely been "privatized", which seems to result in an ever-greater percentage of people being locked up.
"The extinction of the human race will come from its inability to EMOTIONALLY comprehend the exponential function." -- Edward Teller
by lgmcp on Wed Apr 19, 2006 at 10:47:35 AM PDT
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Chalk it up to laziness--my dictionary defines neither "outsource" nor "privatize", and I didn't look further.
I think I assumed that outsourcing dealt more with procurement from a non-governmental source, in other words with obtaining equipment or services, and that privatizing meant turning the entire governmental function over to corporations. Maybe it's a question of a partial or an entire delegation. Maybe there's no real distinction.
We're all in this together.
by JTML on Wed Apr 19, 2006 at 11:45:13 AM PDT
a function previously carried out by a public agency.
by Delta Overdue on Wed Apr 19, 2006 at 09:31:25 PM PDT
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