Naomi Klein: how corporate branding has taken over America.

[dixiegrrrrl]

I like this factual part:

"Lockheed Martin doesn't run the United Slates," observed a 2004 New York Times exposé. "But it does help run a breathtakingly big part of it . . . It sorts your mail and totals your taxes. It cuts Social Security cheques and counts the United States census. It runs space flights and monitors air traffic. To make all that happen, Lockheed writes more computer code than Microsoft."
( did you know Bank of America makes tons of money running the Food Stamp program?
Yes...BOA runs the program)

Rest of article here, and the best part is the 2nd half in which she details how Bush "hollowed out"
the government, giving many functions to private enterprise.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jan/16/naomi-klein-branding-obama-america

[willing dwarf]

1. The lobbyists write policy

The political staff are so busy working on the re-election that they don't have time to get in the driver's seat.

[G_j]

2. K&R!

[Quantess]

3. K & R

[Mira]

4. WOW K&R great find ! N/T

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. We know real change is happening when outsourcing is stopped.

Err...rolled back, I mean.
There is no accountability with outsourcing.
How can the government be getting bigger yet doing less?
Tis a puzzle.