@askjeffroI indicated that the examples referred to when government offers funding for private industry to provide services thereby creating a huge gap under which fraud occurs. The previous post listed these industries as examples that should be a government run corporate entity, eliminating this gap - so I don't see how I contradicted myself - perhaps I was a little unclear. In ALL cases listed, there should be a remarkable absence of private industry to avoid taxpayer's dollars being used for profit or fraud (with the exception of contractor's who work under a strict framework with government hired senior leadership and management) - this is how we work up here in Canada for important large scale infrastructure and public good enterprise.Like you said - I think we are probably on the same page, but the devil is in the details :-)