I'll demonstrate my opposition to the 'privatize everything' idea with one example.

Roosevelt started our national parks SPECIFICALLY because of the risk of corporate exploitation. Corporations have no loyalty other than to the stockholder. Privatize the parks and, even if they still exist, only the most profitable 'guests' will be allowed in.

Carry that attitude to other areas. Do you want Veterans who are no longer profitable to be kicked off the VA plans? Do you want gridlock when several million more cars are added to our rush hours when subways, busses and Amtrak suddenly stop serving people and selling off assets to benefit the shareholders?

Even though I make a decent living, that's not the America I want to live in.

NASA, I think, has the right idea. They set the rules and are contracting out to see if they can get services more efficiently (I'm a big fan of SpaceX, as an example). The flip side of that is MY job where the company that employs me makes more money from the government than I do. In other words, the government pays $X/year for my position. Of that money, I see less than half (less still after taxes) as my employer takes over 50%. (In software contracting this is NOT the norm) This is why the government is eventually converting my got to 'organic' - i.e. to be filled by a civilian employee of the Air Force. They're going to save money.

Privatization is a good thing in many cases - let's just not throw the baby out with the bathwater.