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Daily Archives: January 7th, 2014

Another major surprise: Government works!

Tuesday, January 7, 2014

I'm currently making my way through Doris Kearns Goodwin's latest, The Bully Pulpit, a sort of dual political biography of Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard Taft. Without getting explicit, she's making a lot of points about our current situation. Among other things, she claims, and I think I agree, that one of Teddy's greatest accomplishments […]

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Who could have known that outsourcing government doesn’t work?

Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Here's further proof, should anyone need it, that “privatizing” public functions often makes those services more expensive and lower quality. For decades, citizens have been sold on the mantra that the hungry private sector can do a better and cheaper job of providing services than “inefficient” government. Now it is true that there were some […]

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