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Ichingcarpenter

(36,988 posts) Tue Mar 31, 2015, 05:57 AM Mar 2015

How Privatization Rips Us All Off

How Privatization Rips Us All Off

The Project on Government Oversight found that in 33 of 35 cases the federal government spent more on private contractors than on public employees for the same services. The authors of the report summarized, "Our findings were shocking."

Yet our elected leaders persist in their belief that free-market capitalism works best. Here are a few fact-based examples that say otherwise.

Health Care: Markups of 100%....1,000%....100,000%

Broadcast Journalist Edward R. Murrow in 1955: Who owns the patent on this vaccine?
Polio Researcher Jonas Salk: Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?

We don't hear much of that anymore. The public-minded sentiment of the 1950s, with the sense of wartime cooperation still in the minds of researchers and innovators, has yielded to the neoliberal winner-take-all business model...............

more and the examples

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/how-privatization-rips-us-all

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How Privatization Rips Us All Off (Original Post) Ichingcarpenter Mar 2015 OP

Privatization mindem Mar 2015 #1

Anybody shocked by that is pretty naive. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Mar 2015 #2

Private vs Public = Government aspirant Apr 2015 #3

mindem

(1,580 posts)

1. Privatization

Reply to Ichingcarpenter (Original post)

Tue Mar 31, 2015, 06:42 AM

Mar 2015

I swear some people think if you privatize everything you will get the same services without having to pay for them. Nice companies will step in and provide things without any profit motive. Privatization is just another way to extract wealth from the middle class and the poor.

Erich Bloodaxe BSN

(14,733 posts)

2. Anybody shocked by that is pretty naive.

Reply to Ichingcarpenter (Original post)

Tue Mar 31, 2015, 08:03 AM

Mar 2015

When you go private, you not only have to pay labourers and management, but also shareholders/owners.

aspirant

(3,533 posts)

3. Private vs Public = Government

Reply to Ichingcarpenter (Original post)

Wed Apr 1, 2015, 02:43 AM

Apr 2015

Years of bashing govt and the subtle connection between Right To Privacy and Private corporate contracts has this country on the brink of collapse.

Public = People, so when they are criticizing Public Schools, Transportation, Parks etc they are belittling all of us. Why do we accept this mental crippling misdirection. Reversing this power of propaganda must start now.

UNDO PRIVATIZATION

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