Private contractors aren’t only in Iraq. They’re on the scene wherever public resources are deemed not sufficient to serve the needs of the wealthy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
People whose plumbing needs fixing but have no money do it themselves. If they have money, hiring a plumber is an option.<\/p>\n
Some people go to accountants, or to H’nR Block, and spend their “wealth” to serve their need to get their taxes done. Others, whose resources are deemed not sufficient, use TurboTax.<\/p>\n
Companies that are wealthy enough to be able to think about things like “usability” hire me – a contractor (through most of my career) who doesn’t serve the needs of poor, struggling companies.<\/p>\n
A relative and career forest fire fighter confirms that insurance company crews have been showing up to foam the roofs of multi-million-dollar houses in places like Big Sur. In California, public agencies trying to manage fire on a broader scale have already run through half their budgets before reaching the main fire season, which starts in August.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
To some of us, that sounds like “the wealthy are taking the load off of the public agencies, allowing them to spend their resources on areas that need the help”. It’s downright civic-minded…<\/p>\n
…or so it seems to me, a simple conservative.<\/p>\n
I guess it’d be more communitarian if they all just let their homes burn down…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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