And municipalities merge departments to "grow" their access to budgeted funds, roll debt out/forward several years before having to determine whether costs have been covered (called a gov't audit), cut other public services to cover the service du jour, etc. <br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 6:01 PM, JBilderback <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jebild@gmail.com">jebild@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
This is an interesting and somewhat timely article. And wasn't the reason for privatizing everything that public entities<br>
were so inefficient and wasteful that most things (from war to water) could be better handled and are best left to<br>
private industry?<br>
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<a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/22/time-warner-and-embarq-cant-compete-with-city-owned-isp-trying/" target="_blank">http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/22/time-warner-and-embarq-cant-compete-with-city-owned-isp-trying/</a><br>
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