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To: Wildstar who wrote (78030)	2/27/2003 12:09:06 AM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

OT: <do you mean the Gates foundation with its own money should implement the program?> They have enough money. But, no, it would have to be publicly funded. I can't think of any way a private company can make a profit running drug-treatment/prevention programs. Or any way to have universal literacy, if education isn't publicly funded. And private armies are not a good idea. So the money (and ultimate control) has to come from the government. But the design, set-up, and implementation, all the details and daily running of the programs, could be privatized. The government just writes the checks, and sets the quantifiable yardsticks by which success (and future funding) will be measured. I know, I know all too well, there is the ever-present danger, that the government will want to micro-manage, thus drowning the private subcontractors in a sea of rules and paperwork.