Owen's Fine Trajectory!!

In the Rocky Mountain News this Friday morning:

Bill Owens is off to a job where they privatize the infrasture for profit...."Owens will work with the bank's infrastructure group as it tries to capitalize on the trend of governments selling off their assets to the private sector..." - this totally fits my picture of Bill...

...and there's a new Federal Immigration Bill trying to get through Congress - the details are very nicely laid out in columns of rules that would be implemented if the bill were to pass...4 columns of 5 or 6 rules each....a totally new or vastly expanded bureaucracy is envisioned.....

(I have all this up close and personal experience with our Social Services bureaucracies....it's with me as I read the paper.)

And I think about the 5 computer systems that Colorado bought that don't work....under Bill's astute leadership.....

And I think about Bill capitalizing on a private company - complete with profit seeking investors and share holders - to implement the new immigration rules....

And I feel kind of tense all over; my stomach aches.

I think, "He's made an effort - through bad management - to make government infrastuctures operate so badly, governments want to get rid of them......then he goes and gets a job in which he will make bundles of money with those same bureaucracies.....or ones just like 'em...only run right...which he could have done as governor (run them right), for the benefit of taxpayers ....but would rather do for himself, for his own benefit...." ....I don't like these thoughts.

It makes me think I'm a conspiracy theorist.

Am I the only one who thinks these things?

What is this privatization thing about anyway??? Why does a private company make money doing the same thing that government looses money at??? Please, somebody, explain it to me.

Selling off our roads and bridges.....the idea disturbs me...I think, "What's next? Should we sell the legislature, too?" Oh, right. We already did.

Sometimes I wish Americans could stop thinking about Anna Nicole Smith and that Hasselhoff guy long enough to think about how we're taking care of the things we all share - the systems that make the rest possible....or to at least observe the trajectory of the changes occurring.

Forwarned is forearmed.