A week ago I wrote: Reagan, who said, "government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem." Since then the GOP has been electing people who believe that government won't work. Surprise, we're getting government that doesn't work.
The latest Washington Spectator, dealing with the Blackwater mess, expands on that idea a bit: "… the Republican Party's contempt for government and the belief that what's needed is brains, balls, and muscle from the private sector to make it function properly…"
That explains their rush to contract various necessary pieces of the military to outside companies and not bother with any oversight. Not surprisingly, the contracts are based on politics and cronyism and have a way of enriching the appropriate legislators.
The big problem is that the cost of getting something done must include not just labor and materials, but profit, and at the taxpayers expense. In the same way we don't have Medicare for all yet. The GOP believes a governmental service is no good unless someone makes a profit from it.
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