The rank smell of right wing politics…
[Note, how, once again, the quotes from people opposing this privatization initiative come from narrowly focused issue groups, or from individuals directly affiliated with the park system, whereas the quotes from the private sector supporters common from the generically right-wing Competitive Enterprise Institute - and they get the last word.
Where is the quote from the generic left-wing think tank? Answer: there isn’t one - unless the Commonweal Institute gets going.
“mulch-ridden”? god, these fuckers have become arrogant in the extreme. -Thomas]
U.S. to privatize Park Service jobs
Critics fear plan will weaken protection of priceless resources
Julie Cart, Los Angeles Times
Monday, January 27, 2003
(c)2003 San Francisco Chronicle
As part of its push to privatize federal workers, the Bush administration
has identified about 70 percent of full-time jobs in the National Park
Service as potential candidates for replacement by private-sector employees.
Interior Secretary Gale Norton, who oversees the Park Service, has earmarked
11,807 of 16,470 full-time positions for possible privatization.
[…]
The trend to outsourcing is inexorable, said Fred Smith, president of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a Washington, D.C., free-market advocacy group. “The government is way behind the curve,” Smith said. “Something as
mulch-ridden as the Park Service is long overdue for this. Allow voluntary
groups to work in the parks. Let people and groups who care deeply about
bats and sea turtles and caves do the work. The private museum system has
been using docents for years. It’s about time the government caught up.”
[As if these fuckers gave a damn about bats and sea turtles. -Thomas]
