Privatization Works!

8 Random Items for 12/5/2008 #7

Yet another example of the benefits of privatization for the United States of America. As usual, the profit motive results in a better quality service. Consider the ice situation.

The lawsuit also accuses KBR of shipping ice in mortuary trucks that “still had traces of body fluids and putrefied remains in them when they were loaded with ice. This ice was served to U.S. forces.”

There's also KBR's sterling handling of human remains.

“Wild dogs in the area raided the burn pit and carried off human remains,” the lawsuit states. “The wild dogs could be seen roaming the base with body parts in their mouths, to the great distress of the U.S. forces.”

Of course, this is just our armed forces we are talking about. Besides, isn't a little extra suffering for our troops a fair price to pay at the holy grail of small government? As dday says at the link above, "I suppose you could provide bodily-fluid free ice to US forces, if you wanted to increase the size of government to outrageous degrees. Or you could believe in the shining glory that is private enterprise and the free market."