What is the matter with these people?

Hudak says unions should compete for government contracts:

The Progressive Conservatives want to force Ontario's public sector unions to compete for contracts to provide government services in order to save taxpayers money.
...Hudak says the Conservatives would not contract out police, health or teaching services, but would look at competitive bids for things such as email hosting, transportation, food and laundry services in jails and even employment training.

Why do Cons seem to think that government workers exist only to cost money to taxpayers? Do they think the best we can do is a society where somebody is trying to make a dollar on the food we force prisoners to eat? Or where isolated towns with only a few people living in them don't get provincial bus service?
I was going to say something about how their heart is in the right place, but actually I don't think it is.