P3 - Public and Private Partnership

I am from the government and I am here to help you.  Reagan instilled mass fear with that phase.  Loathing too.  Nothing like the double whammy of fear and hate.  Combined they are a very powerful tool to attain certain objectives.

I am from private enterprise and I am here to help you.  Maybe even more chilling.

We are the government and private enterprise working together we are here to help you.  Cooperate with us because my government partner says it is the law and if you do not then my partner also does law enforcement and collections.  I tell my partner what laws to write for our joint business.

When a business model entity becomes sufficiently established to be identified by the short hand of letters it is entrenched. Who on the street knows what P3 is?  PPP in my town is Pole, Paddle, Pedal.

Some terms are for back office use only, not for public consumption.  That is why there is a PR department in the front office to change the face with lipstick if necessary.  Say the right thing to consumers to promote profit.

Perhaps the biggest opportunity to make big money in the Information Age application of technology is P3?  I  certainly am beginning to believe that.  When government entities have deparents of public/private cooperation partnerships staffed by government employees and top level managers tasked to seek out P3 opportunities the door to the hen houseis open. 

When the top level government official running the P3 .gov department is also a vice chairman of a K street firm lobbying on behalf of a P3 sector of interest re the fox is in the hen house!he

Of course, the fox is there to help you!  Don't mind it's partner that opened the door, it is just its stooge.

While there is legitimate benefit in P3 there is also significant opportunity to invade the public domain and control it for profit and political power.

Jim Whitty is the manager of the ODOT Office of Innovative Partnerships and Innovative Funding.

http://transportation.nationaljournal.com/contributors/james-whitty.php

Jim Whitty was also vice chairman of mbufa.org for 4 years until the spring of 2014.  He is succeded in the position by Norma Ortega of Caltrans.

http://mbufa.org/images/MBUFA-Spring-2014.pdf

http://mbufa.org

Norma Ortega:

http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/paffairs/bios/ortega.htm

According to this site her's is a voluntary position.

http://tollroadsnews.com/news/norma-ortega-is-new-vice-chair-of-mileage-based-user-fee-alliance-board

Very cozy partnership with no money changing hands of course but on the other hand are there benefits that money does not buy?

Like banking....is P3 a good thing or a bad thing?  Depends on where you stand and where you stand is where you sit.