@ Timber Wolf - Thanks for replying.  

Please understand, I don't recommend we should run health care or education as private concerns.  I said you could privately contract for those, not that you (or me) or all of society, should.  There are problems with going down that path that we can observe in our southern neighbour.   I cannot think of a good model, or a good outcome, to a privately funded justice system hence my point it should get priority for funding.  If you can't deliver an effective justice system, you will have trouble effectively delivering any other service.  I guess mine is a point that is correct in theory but can be ignored in practice due to who is most effected.  Perhaps what we have is what the general public deems to be a "good enough" justice system for their interests.  I would say we are finding out that is not necessarily the case.