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Desegregation occurring when the push to dismantle government run services was gaining traction caused the loss of public pools. Americans acquired an irrationa
by synetic 3y ago
Desegregation occurring when the push to dismantle government run services was gaining traction caused the loss of public pools. Americans acquired an irrational fear of government in the 70s and 80s. We lost public pools, publicly run ambulance service, publicly run garbage collection. Police departments no longer service their own vehicles.
- neaden 3y agoI think it's important to remember how linked these are. In many places the response to desegregation was to dismantle as much public infrastructure as possible and replace it with private infrastructure that was legally integrated but functionalaly segregated.
- hyperliner 3y ago[dead]
- gagged_s_poster 3y ago>irrational
- synetic 3y agoYes it was irrational of Americans to fear government run ambulance services and whatnot. All governments are capable of doing bad things. The reaction to this fact ought not be the dismantling of those government services that worked and provided tangible benefits to the people. Certain politicians decried government inefficiency and said that government can’t work. Once elected they did everything they could to prove themselves correct.
- twoodfin 3y agoWhy should police departments do automobile maintenance? Other than to add more sinecures for the politically connected…
- synetic 3y agoWhat is the benefit of outsourcing that to a private company that pays its workers much less in salary and a benefits? The money spent on maintenance is roughy the same but now the jobs for the workers are less desirable less well paid. The money now goes to the business owner. All the business owner is doing to squeezing money out of the workers to enrich themselves. There is no benefit to society in doing this. Indeed it is a loss for the community. Are you under the impression that government contracts for vehicle maintenance are immune to becoming sinecures for the politically connected? Only mechanics are subject to this possibility?
- twoodfin 3y agoShould they sew their own uniforms? Build their own laptops?
- synetic 3y agoNo. The larger departments should service their own vehicles though.
- twoodfin 3y agoSome outsourcing (aka buying goods and services on the market) is good but some other outsourcing is bad?
- jychang 3y agoObviously yes? Why wouldn’t it be? Outsourcing isn’t inherently good or bad, it’s just a means to an end that may have good or bad side effects.
- synetic 3y agoObviously some outsourcing is good and some bad. You seem not to understand that this could be true. Only a fool thinks all instances of outsourcing are good (or bad). Typically people don’t live in a world of extreme positions whereby one occurrence of outsourcing being good (or bad) means all of them are. It is obvious the position that I have. Government has outsourced too many jobs to the private sector and the effect has been to enrich the business class at the expense of the working class.
- SamReidHughes 3y agoGovernment agencies that serviced their own vehicles just ended up with a fleet of non-working vehicles. At least that was true for those for which the vehicle fleet was of secondary concern. And for something like a police department, the efficiencies disappear with modern vehicles which need less maintenance.