[nebulousthree]

It's the flip flopping of liberal investment in government and public services, followed by conservative slashing of those services, followed by a condemnation of government's ability to provide after having been slashed, followed by an open bidding war for private consultancies to take over the role of the slashed service at a supposedly lower cost (that overruns in the end anyway, just like the aforementioned government service did in the first place). Rinse and repeat as every generation of politician proposes the new thing (repackaged old thing) and can then pat themselves on the back about what a good job they did. The kickbacks must be nice too I suppose ;)

[travoc]

I've lived in cities and states where there was never the remote political possibility of the "conservative slashing of services" yet the problems and complaints still persist. Your theory may have some gaps.

[sitkack]

Gaps or a soap boxed size podium in some backwater forum board with bad css where they can beg the question about a liberal conservative epicycle?