This same principal has been used by Glatting Jackson in the planning for the Moss Park Community which includes a plan to develop 36 acres within the community which will include an elementary school, fire station, community meeting rooms, community park, and potentially a library and church. The developer is planning this public area in concert with the surrounding neighbors. R West Palm Beach westpalmbeach Rick Prescott, urban designer at the West Palm Beach office, recently designed and supervised the installation of landscaping in his neighborhood's new traffic calming measures. When Roosevelt was elected in the 1930 s, he said that government is the solution to our problems. By the 1980 s, when Ronald Reagan was elected, one of the things he said was government isn t the solution to our problems.
Government is our problem.
Today, nearly all public services from schools, hospitals, and prisons to mass transit and sanitation are considered fair game for privatization. Always Get What You Pay For, Elliott Sclar examines how different state and local governments attempted to privatize their services. And, rather than describe complex economic theories, Sclar uses anecdotes to explain the point that privatization has its costs both economically and socially. For example, private contracting works best with services that require lower-skilled work, like janitorial services. However, there is a social cost that is often not evaluated.