Over the past several decades, different levels of government have contracted out basic public services. This is often far less efficient. The main cost savings occur because the private vendor often pays the workers less than the civil service counterpart.

Time to De-Privatize – The American Prospect

While I’m busy writing about things that will look odd in a hundred years. How has it taken us forty years to understand that you can’t stack margin of 10% on multiple layers of public services and expect value for money?

The maths don’t work but we insist on doing it.