Reply #5: The Bush Way - mismanage(understaff & underfund) state agencies [View All]

[Divernan]

until they are riddled with scandal. Then claim you're going to fix the problem and save the taxpayers money by privatising. Query:
when you have to subtract a layer of profit (because "non-profit" simplly means there are no stockholders and all the money goes to the owners and highest level management) from the taxpayer funded services, how can you maintain let alone improve the previous level of care? In nursing home situations, the privatisers cut expenses by reducing the quality and amount of food; and by hiring people who can't get jobs at MacDonalds.
For example, if you slap a plate with pizza on it in front of someone too far gone to feed themselves, and you haven't hired enough attendants to feed residents one-on-one; you can get by with ONE untouched piece of pizza, not two or three; and nobody asks for seconds. None of those "Oliver" moments: "Can I have some more, sir?" This has been the situation in Pennsylvania for a long time, and meanwhile top management at these places go to week long "training" sessions in the Carribbean.

I seriously doubt that Jeb required accompanying legislation to limit the caseload of workers at the private agency - god knows he didn't do it for the state workers.