There has been 'privatize'ing since the beginning...

http://www.nps.gov/revwar/about_the_revolution/privateers.html

The Congress shall have Power - To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.

they have access to information that would be very beneficial to his former Employers at Booz Allen.

What could go wrong with putting our rights in the hands of Private Contractors and their former employees now in government? And why are former Bush men, who worked for Private Contractors like Booz Allen now in the administration of a Democratic President?

Did you trust Bush with your rights? Booz Allen, Clapper? Did we vote for these people to defend and protect our rights? Who are they? They are a multi billion dollar private Government Security Contractor who have had problems in the past with the way they operate.

How do we know that these dumbos contractors hire aren't the same ones ripping off credit cards, etc.
This is effin' crazy.

or Uzbekistan eg, in return for allowing us to keep our bases in their countries. We know nothing about them or their employees, or their backgrounds.

It's 'fucking crazy' as you say, Malaise, and even more fucking crazy to see ANYONE trying to defend it. It kills me to see Ari Fleishcher, Rep Peter 'we count the votes' King and other Bush loyalists, the very criminals we tried to get prosecuted, congratulation the president WE elected to stop them?? I know I feel like a complete idiot right now.

Cheap labor for profit and war at all costs. I want no part of it.

with a tad of moronic and idiotic?

It's much older than the US, and specifically sanctioned by the Constitution

It's a business model that's continued to grow to this day.

are today's mercs, and the most dangerous type as they have access to all details of our private lives, and have no real chain of command they have to answer to. It's practically impossible to terminate a military contractor once its leached onto a federal agency. Look at Blackwater, for instance - it IS the CIA.

It is crazy

Here's another apt quote for you:

they were about to collapse. Why don't we call them Mercenaries, instead of the 'contractor' tag? Because everyone knows how low you must be going when you are hiring mercenaries.

China and Saudi Arabia. To them, we are their mercenaries and debt peons.

Let's finish the job by arming the Syrian rebels and attacking Iran. Not.

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Both are direct products of the Koch brothers, through their PACs the "tea party" and "citizens united", among their many PACs.

The "emergency manager" laws are a smash-and-grab ala the vulture capitalism depicted in the 1980s film "Wall Street". They are literally selling infrastructure and outlawing unions and unionizing. Debt is the lever from which they work this scheme, and Wall Street are profiting $474 million from Detroit's debt alone. Rick Snyder, governor of Michigan, is a stealth "tea party" candidate, so the Koch connection is right there.

Also see what they're doing to Benton Harbor and Pontiac, Michigan via this "legislation". Especially Benton Harbor's prime beach-front property.

Rachel Maddow broke these stories; her articles/video are highly recommended.

Why? Because this is "austerity". Notice that the US is in debt (TO WHO?) for Bush's wars, to the tune of trillions of dollars? They're waiting to use that debt as a hammer to smash the US economy and to force "austerity" (meaning, WE pay for everything, meaning it's a smash-and-grab) down our throats.

"Debt is their business model!" ~The 99% Illuminator, message upon a Wells Fargo building

a democratic state!

in Benton Harbor was especially egregious.

Capitalism at its most base.

do. Higher standards, more oversight, less taxpayer money squandered.

I'm not sure how you would interpret government that represents and is controlled by the ruling class (i.e. 1%).

But to me it sounds like privatized government.

Who does not want to work directly for the government but rather as a contractor.

So government should build all roads itself and not contract it out? There's a valid argument to be had here but you didn't make it.