Reply #6: The funny thing about privatization [View All]

[howaboutme]

is that it never saves us money. It always creates corruption. It creates cronyism. It creates a bureaucracy that works to serve the private sector contractors because they provide incentives for jobs and goodies for the "govt overseers" that are conflicts of interest and counter to the taxpayers interests.

A government bureaucrat never has an incentive to bribe a politician or another bureaucrat to cut corners or add costs or expenses, but the private sector does, and they do it regularly.

I rarely hear anyone state that Medicare Advantage (privatized Medicare) costs every taxpayer thousands more than regular Medicare. Yet this is what Ryan proposes to replace regular Medicare.

The real crux of the American problem is that too many in both Parties have special interests that do not represent the common good of the USA. They representing other countries and special moneyed interests that have nothing to do with Americans.