from mitchrealitycheck.com
Friday, Mitch Daniels dropped his plan to privatize the Hoosier Lottery after federal regulators gently reminded him this would be illegal.
Though the bum Toll Road deal slipped past the legislature, there seems to be a pattern now of Daniels' more extreme privatization projects being blocked before they do even more harm. With recent news coverage highlighting the damage done to Hoosiers' lives by social services privatization, we can be thankful that its spread throughout the state was halted at least temporarily. Now the federal government is getting involved again, pointing out that the Daniels plan would violate federal law.
Mitch often tries to justify his outsourcing projects as a way to cut waste, though these savings usually fail to materialize. You know what's really wasteful? Having the state attempt one privatization project after another, only to have it blocked because it's harmful or illegal. Maybe the best way to avoid waste is to elect a governor who won't waste time on trying to outsource important services, and instead just fix them.
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Monday, October 27, 2008
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