Larry Dighera wrote:

You can't expect a for-profit corporation to have staffing levels
great enough to adequately handle the peak periods. They'd be over
staffed most of the time. :-(


There are legitimate functions of government: Public Transportation
standards and safety, fire police and rescue, military and borders
and ports. Hopefully, a large amount of time you will NOT be needing
these trained people.... but when you need them you MUST have them
and in numbers sufficient to do the job. I would include Flight Services
and ATC in the category of *legitimate* government function... and
"profit" should not a factor in determining staffing levels for these
types of organizations or functions.

This government might not be so strapped for cash (and thus need to
reduce spending in LEGITIMATE areas) if it were not spending so much
money on things it has no Constitutional or legitimate right to be
spending taxpayer's money on (like buying votes with pork and welfare
programs).

Thankfully there are some people and business actually still making a
profit out there or this government wouldn't have the money to blow.