Re: Re: Re: Costly privatizing of firefighting

[Joel Blau]

The "best case" scenario is supposed Indianapolis under Mayor Stephen Goldsmith. For an overview of the
whole issue, see Elliot Sclar, You Don't Always Get What You Pay For, Cornell University Press, 2001.

Joel Blau

Ian Murray wrote:

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From: "Michael Perelman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 3:23 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:26871] Re: Costly privatizing of firefighting

Does anybody know of any examples where privatization has created any
efficiencies other than attacking wages and working conditions?  Does
anyone know of any case where it has not increased overhead and
administrative bloat?
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How is attacking wages and working conditions efficient? "Corporatizing" the public sector [which is
really just shifting from one mode of publicness/accountability to a different mode of
publicness/accountability] is simply asset stripping dressed up in fancy rhetoric.

Ian