Private-sizing Government

While debate continues over what government should be doing, an entire new line of debate is how it should be doing it.

This has been forced by the unrelenting economic downturn, requiring government to look at more of what it has traditionally averted: outsourcing and privatizing functions.

It shows up in larger ways, such as the state of Florida privatizing the operations of its prisons and looking into selling some of its road systems as other cities and states have done.