>Why would we expect public organizations to be any more efficient than private organizations? We wouldn't expect that, of course, but there are a lot of peopl

>Why would we expect public organizations to be any more efficient than private organizations? We wouldn't expect that, of course, but there are a lot of people out there who do assume as an axiom that any publicly provided resource is going to be handled much more efficiently than the private sector could. It's worth emphasizing that's not usually the case.