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<blockquote data-quote="W. Mark Hellinger" data-source="post: 84641" data-attributes="member: 692">Re: Competition: fair/unfairI don&#039;t know what the consensus is, but I&#039;m of the opinion that the government should do that which the government is uniquely qualified to do, as in: Establish and uphold standards and laws, devise a currency scheme, construct &amp; maintain public infrastructure, maintain an army &amp; protect our boarders... that kind of stuff... whatever can&#039;t be effectively outsourced to the private sector. Managing our public airways should certainly come under the auspices of our govt. A university operating a sound company for hire in the public market for a fraction of the actual cost of doing that business while doing a wet tee-shirt contest at a biker rally in a completely different state than a university&#039;s campus and the lifer university employed operators are getting paid in cash under the table and selling &quot;surplus equipment&quot; for cash out the backdoor of the student union building isn&#039;t something I think publicly funded (or tax sheltered) higher education dollars should be spent on.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="W. Mark Hellinger, post: 84641, member: 692"] Re: Competition: fair/unfair [COLOR=#222222][FONT=Verdana]I don't know what the consensus is, but I'm of the opinion that the government should do that which the government is uniquely qualified to do, as in: Establish and uphold standards and laws, devise a currency scheme, construct & maintain public infrastructure, maintain an army & protect our boarders... that kind of stuff... whatever can't be effectively outsourced to the private sector. Managing our public airways should certainly come under the auspices of our govt. A university operating a sound company for hire in the public market for a fraction of the actual cost of doing that business while doing a wet tee-shirt contest at a biker rally in a completely different state than a university's campus and the lifer university employed operators are getting paid in cash under the table and selling "surplus equipment" for cash out the backdoor of the student union building isn't something I think publicly funded (or tax sheltered) higher education dollars should be spent on.[/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]

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