You know, at some point there has to be parity. There has to be parity between what is happening in the real world, and what is happening in the public sector world.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Somehow, failures in the public sector are always judged as systematic. The private sector thus exists to ride to the rescue - and their failures are only judged anomalies. A pretty nice arrangement for investors. The only people who suffer are the citizens.
We impugn the private sector, we impugn main street America, and the bureaucracy cannot be held to any different standard whatsoever.
It would be wonderful if the public sector were always great, or always terrible; or if the private sector were always great, or always terrible. Alas, reality is more complicated than comforting caricatures. Governments fail, and corporations fail.
Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions.
We need a government which, yes, guarantees basic standards in public services, but which also steps in to protect people's wellbeing as they take part in our consumer democracy - particularly online.
Parity is for farmers.
Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.
There are people in the public sector with a range of experiences that have no equivalent in business, but are essential to governing, like keeping a kid in school or helping someone get and hold a job. The value of those skills can't easily be measured against a bottom line.
I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.
Government has really been growing, a lot of largesse, but the people in the real world aren't. And that's what has to change. Government has no conformity at all with the real world.