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To: geode00 who wrote (262462)	4/24/2008 3:22:31 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 281500

China is growing at 9%. And China's government has been decreasing as a percentage of the total activity in the country. China's private sector is growing faster than its public sector. China's growth started exploding after it turned away from hard line communism and started to allow more free market activity. You don't think that having 50% (or thereabouts, hard to tell) of the war being run as a private contracting service is mass privatization? Really? I don't think describing 50% of the war as private would be an accurate statement, and even if it was, it would not be mass privatization. Almost 100% of the US effort is a government effort. The government may be paying contractors, but its still government money, and the tasks are chosen by the government. A real privatized effort would be a war waged by a private concern for its own reasons and with its own resources. Contracted does not equal privatized. And its questionable if even 50% of the war is contracted. US military personally do an overwhelming portion of the fighting done by Americans. And many of the contractors aren't even supporting the US military, but working in Iraq at something else (building infrastructure, etc.)

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