Couldn the General Assembly retaliate against H.O.P.E. by privatizing public jobs?
In NC there have been five principal motives for privatization: • racism • the irrational belief that the private sector always does it better and cheaper • the resolution of employee disputes by eliminating the employees • covering up managerial incompetence by blaming the employees • an honest desire to save taxpayers money. Those who are motivated by racist ideology usually hide behind other reasons. Those who have an irrational belief in the superiority of the private sector will never give public employees the benefit of the doubt anyway. Through the privatization studies on the UNC campus and elsewhere, state employees have demonstrated time and again that the public sector can do it better and cheaper than the private sector. Anyone with the honest belief that the only reason to privatize is to save taxpayers money and provide higher quality service will have no quarrel with the results of these studies.
In NC there have been five principal motives for privatization: • racism • the irrational belief that the private sector always does it better and cheaper • the resolution of employee disputes by eliminating the employees • covering up managerial incompetence by blaming the employees • an honest desire to save taxpayers money. Those who are motivated by racist ideology usually hide behind other reasons. Those who have an irrational belief in the superiority of the private sector will never give public employees the benefit of the doubt anyway. Through the privatization studies on the UNC campus and elsewhere, state employees have demonstrated time and again that the public sector can do it better and cheaper than the private sector. Anyone with the honest belief that the only reason to privatize is to save taxpayers money and provide higher quality service will have no quarrel with the results of these studies. It is not in administrators’ interest to privatize employees when we are al
