.....eh, not exactly. While privatization was done under Clinton, he wasn't the first (at all, Carter ran on exactly that) and more importantly it wasn't done

.....eh, not exactly. While privatization was done under Clinton, he wasn't the first (at all, Carter ran on exactly that) and more importantly it wasn't done because of any percieved "effectiveness", it was an ideological pitch to Regan democrats and that all but invisible voter "moderate republican but I'll vote for a Dem if they woo me". And the idea that somehow federal workers are more expensive then contractors is .... bizarre. It is very much the opposite.