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Date: 2009-01-27 02:21 am (UTC)Public roads don't. The percentage of the profit is money that doesn't need to be spent by the public maintainer. See the example of British Rail for an unmistakable case of "the government did a much better job of running that than the privatized owners did". It's entirely possible to run something well with a large public bureaucracy.
My experience of government differs from yours; I'm used to dealing with a government bureaucracy that's polite, efficient, and fast.
I don't have strong opinions about the state of higher education in the US; I think it's got too much emphasis on immediate commercial value in research in Canada, insufficient emphasis on mathematics generally, and that the late eighties/early nineties fit over the effectiveness of publicly funded post-secondary education as a class laundry needs to be corrected.