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The argument that private institutions are ALWAYS more efficient than government ignores the rich history of profiteering and fraud that sometimes accompanies privitization. Witness Haliburton's overcharging the army for fuel, Enron's manipulation of the California energy market or a thousand other examples. Here in Louisiana, we've recently had a privatized juvenile detention facility shut down due to horrible abuses committed in the name of the profit motive.
As always, subjects of such complexity are not accurately summed up with binary logic. Is business more efficient then government? It depends....
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