It's that bad, because I think they all share the same problem, and that is it's really hard to put money into fixing up assets. I was surprised as we went around the world. You'd think a place like Switzerland or Germany...but no. This is a pervasive problem, and that's why every country is looking for solutions today. Some of them are what they call private-public partnerships--there are all these acronyms--but I think when it comes to public property, that is no different. Let's face it, an office building is an office building. It doesn't matter, it's built the same, it's identical, so it gets harder to rationalize why government needs to own it.
At home, one of our problems may be that we need an electric drill. Why do we have to own it? Why can't we have a right to use it?
Our society is fraught with that problem today. Everything we need to use we have to own. You might say ideologically there's no need for us to own some of these. We need to own certain things, but the impediment is ideological. There are people who believe government has to own things.