The solution to delivering those services effectively, and to obtaining performance- based feedback on how they are working, rests with a combination of information technology and management that the private sector is better equipped to provide. Some flash of improvement may come from privatization when you are dealing with government that has become hidebound and bureaucratic. But the solution to bad government is not to end it or circumvent it by privatization, but to innovate and modernize within government. In 1993 CSEA posed a set of reforms to create a 21st century state work force. Today, government agencies run golf courses, telecommunications systems and casinos.
Corporations deliver mail, sell drinking water and run jails.
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