Privatization -- or modern privateering

From: The Boston Globe | Date: April 30, 1991| Author: Alan Lupo, Globe Staff | Copyright information

So now the state is trying to figure out which public services it should peddle to the highest bidder.

The Weld administration is heeding the clarion call of "privatization."

Privatization is the modern version of privateering, a practice -- used possibly by some of the ancestors of our current leadership -- in which the government commissioned private vessels in wartime to attack enemy ships.

Some privateers liked what they were doing so much that they became buccaneers, ...

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