This is a great idea!
Things would go really well, at least according to the media and fedgov, until corruption and the failures of bureaucracy could no longer hide all the problems.
Someone will suggest the marvelous and entirely new idea of a private/government relationship. Then we will have a never ending supply of $600 heads of operating system update lettuce from Bill Gates and nothing else.
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Things would go really well, at least according to the media and fedgov, until a ever expanding budget could no longer hide the corruption and failures of bureaucracy.