Out of Control: Failures of Outsourcing Public Services to For-Profit Corporations

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http://www.scribd.com/doc/195470620/Out-of-Control

Unfortunately for taxpayers, not only has outsourcing these services failed to keep this promise, but too often it undermines transparency, accountability, shared prosperity and competition – the underpinnings of democracy itself. As state legislatures soon reconvene, policy makers likely will consider more outsourcing proposals.

Too often, outsourcing means taxpayers have very little say over how tax dollars are spent and no say on actions taken by private companies that tcontrol our public services. Outsourcing means taxpayers cannot vote out executives who make decisions that hurt public health and safety. Outsourcing means taxpayers are contractually stuck with a monopoly run by a single corporation – and those contracts often last decades. And outsourcing too often means a race to the bottom

This report highlights the failed experiences of cities and states across the country that recently experimented with outsourcing in a variety of sectors. Organized by failures in transparency, accountability, shared prosperity and competition, these stories will show how hastily and ill-conceived outsourcing deals fail to protect taxpayers and the public interest.

[daleanime]

1. Kick....

[truebluegreen]

2. One of the biggest con jobs of recent decades

lay in convincing the public that private for-profit companies could do better work more cheaply than the government.

[modrepub]

3. Which should be readily apparent

when private business complains when the public sector competes with them; "we can't compete with a nonprofit entity like the government".

[truebluegreen]

4. But somehow that never sinks in for the conservative base, does it?

It is an article of faith for them and, like other matters of faith, it is a belief in things unseen.

[freshwest]

5. There it is... n/t