Selling the CIA*

I read with delight and amusement your article describing the “thoughts” being given to the proposition that the CIA should be privatized (March 26). Well OK, but why stop there? Why not sell the FBI and the NSA while we’re at it. We ought to be able to get better prices for them than for the mismanaged CIA.

And what about the biggest spender of them all? Let’s sell the military complex to the highest bidder! On second thought, we ought to repackage them so we could sell the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps as separate corporations. We could probably get a lot more for them that way. And it would keep any one corporation from monopolizing the defense of our country. Wow! Think of the taxes we’d save! Why, it would send the Dow Jones through the ceiling.

I wonder what we could get for the Supreme Court. And the Interstate highway system. Do you thing anyone would make an offer on the presidency? If we sold that off we wouldn’t have to be voting or putting up with yearlong, mudslinging campaigns every four years.

And finally, the Congress has been doing a particularly bad job. Why not sell it, too, to the highest bidder? Oops! I guess that’s already been done. Over and over again.

SAM PHILIPS

Tarzana