re: Also broken: NOLA vacuum trucks

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Simple fact is that every city shortcoming the citizens are disgruntled about are huge tasks to tackle and we are asking the city to be 100% focused on crime, infrastructure, schools, jobs, etc.

Any one of those topics is big. All of them combined is nearly impossible to focus on all at once.

We need more people/companies pitching in to do the work instead of relying on the local government

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Right now in many cases privitizing simply means giving the contract to whomever is politically connected and gave enough campaign contributions to the right people.

If you want to offload more services to the private sector (something I agree with, by the way) we need a much better system for evaluating, awarding, and monitoring these contracts.

And that will only happen if we elect people who want to make the city better, not just enrich their contributors.