If the government couldn't figure out a way to fund their implementation, then either the government was insufficiently-wily (in which case, they could've hired

If the government couldn't figure out a way to fund their implementation, then either the government was insufficiently-wily (in which case, they could've hired wily consultants), or it was genuinely impossible without taking money from another pot. If the latter, then selling to a for-profit corporate structure was the worst possible decision they could've made.