Some ideas/direction sought on a piece on privatization I'm working on... [View all]

[markpkessinger]

I'm in the early stages of developing a blogpost I'm writing. The piece is intended to debunk, to the extent possible, the claims made by the right to the effect that private industry always delivers products/services more efficiently (i.e., at a better quality per price) than the government. One of the things I always try to do in pieces like this is to anticipate the counter-arguments and counter examples. And here's the point where I could use some ideas/direction pointers. Can anyone here, being as generous as you reasonably can to the right's argument, think of any example from U.S. history where a product/service that was originally a publicly provided and was later privatized, about which a remotely arguable case can be made that such privatization worked to the benefit of the public at large?

I'm not looking for folks to do my research for me here, but just for some examples I might use to anticipate the right's counter-argument. Any thoughts would be most appreciated.

Thanks in advance!