‘Resign in shame’: Fed-up Kansas CEO flees GOP governor’s disastrous reign

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62. If the people of Kansas think that privitizing the state's business

will save them money I can probably find a bridge to sell them. Businesses exist to make money not to provide services out of the goodness of their hearts. They (the State of Kansas) will find themselves in even a worse pickle and when the state has to try to pick up the pieces, they will no longer have the resources to do so.

I know of a situation where a city hired a consultant to prepare plans for a project. The Agency I work for scheduled a meeting with the City and their Consultant for which the Consultant would collect a portion of the fee on the contract with the City. The Consultant submitted a copy of "the plans" to our Agency before the meeting.

What was the problem? The plans weren't even for the project they were hired to work on.

Was the meeting cancelled pending the Consultant actually providing plans for the project?

No.

Instead they went ahead with the meeting knowing that they didn't even have a set of plans. The Consultant would have been able to submit an invoice to the City for partial payment on their contract and they hadn't even actually done any work on it yet.


State have to function with limited budgets and Consultants/Suppliers/Contractors want to charge you through the nose for their contracts. Certain functions have to be done for the safety of the public and if you have to rely upon an extremely small number of contractors for a particular urgent type of contract it may cost you an arm and a leg because they know that you don't have a lot of options. And the public want instant solutions. Yeah right. Doesn't always happen as fast as they would like because you still have to conduct business according to state statutes. Even if you use private contractors there is still those pesky state statutes that have to be followed to even issue a contract.

Anybody that believes that privitization is the way to go is flat out crazy. In the long run, privitization is not a pretty sight.