Minorities and Privatization

The column expresses several unsupported allegations against the economics achieved by government units contracting certain services with the private sector.

These opinions are not surprising from two college professors, who often express liberally slanted views on economics which need to be challenged.

One paragraph states, “privatization does not even meet its short-term objectives of efficiency and cost effectiveness.” I contend they would be hard-pressed to prove these allegations.

Alternatively, a few of the figures quoted acknowledge that government units pay higher wages than the private sector for the same jobs, which obviously costs the taxpayers more.

Also very often those hired by the private sector are more efficient and produce more in an 8-hour day than we frequently find in government jobs. We have all experienced the inefficiency and poor training of government clerks behind counters.

Regular government jobs should not be a welfare program.

IRVIN C. CHAPMAN

Costa Mesa