Let's be serious, when it comes to performing certain tasks, the government does it best. Two of the most notable examples that come to mind are military operations and space operations. It's a well publicized fact that contracting out military support and logistics is a terrible and wasteful idea. Private companies charge obscenely high amounts for their services, they rip the government off. There are private contractors that are being employed in Iraq, where upwards of 95 percent of their profits come from the U.S. government. How does this save the governmnet money when they end up supplying the contractor with the vast majority of its revenues? Now we want to privatize trasnsport to the ISS? These companies' revenues will come solely from NASA! Not only is NASA paying for the costs involved, they'll also end up paying bloated profit margins that would be unnecessary if they were handled by NASA itself! It'll end up being a greater waste of money. I sense meddling by the Bush administration.
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Let's be serious, when it comes to performing certain tasks, the government does it best. Two of the most notable examples that come to mind are military operations and space operations. It's a well publicized fact that contracting out military support and logistics is a terrible and wasteful idea. Private companies charge obscenely high amounts for their services, they rip the government off. There are private contractors that are being employed in Iraq, where upwards of 95 percent of their profits come from the U.S. government. How does this save the governmnet money when they end up supplying the contractor with the vast majority of its revenues? Now we want to privatize trasnsport to the ISS? These companies' revenues will come solely from NASA! Not only is NASA paying for the costs involved, they'll also end up paying bloated profit margins that would be unnecessary if they were handled by NASA itself! It'll end up being a greater waste of money. I sense meddling by the Bush administration.