I think we can expect every aspect of government to become for profit privatized in the future

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

You might want to read about what happened to Bolivia when Bechtel went in and privatized the water supply. Soon you'll be seeing ads in your state and city with children dying as they drink impure water and not the water brought to them by OhSoSafePureWater Co. now coming to your community.

Seriously, keep an eye on this as your idiot local burghermeisters decides its a good fiscal idea to turn over your local aquifers to a corporation in order to "cut costs"

[begin_within]

1. So it's a corporate takeover of government. They want the government's customers.

So they couldn't find enough customers on their own, they want to force everyone to be their customers. What happened to the free market? And churches metastasizing into the public sphere too, since they can't get enough people to join their church, they simply try to apply their doctrine to the public at large by getting laws passed that encode their doctrine.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

6. And oh, gee, look what happened in the Healthcare debate.

And now we have Social Security Commissions and Medicare Commissions.

Will we all drop over in a dead faint of surprise when it is announced that "Big Government" is inefficient and that "free markets" are needed to "lower costs" for the citizen/consumer? It worked so well for California when Enron free marketed/gamed energy as a futres commodity didn't it? Worked out great when the banks off-loaded their risk with subprime mortgages as securities sold to pension funds and insured themselves with CDS's and the taxholder's picked up the tab, didn't it? It was super when their bloated carcasses were called "too big to fail" and we had to ressurect them with taxpayer funds wasn't it?

Can we get a fucking clue? Does anyone see a pattern emerging?

Who is sick of seeing the American citizen as the sitting duck victim/rube of the biggest Ponzi scheme swindle ever pulled off in history and too medicated, scared, victimized, uncaring, dumb, lazy, Fox informed, to scream "Enough!"

[begin_within]

7. I think people see it, but are beginning to feel that it's overpowering them.

Someone remarked to me, "Everyone's just so beaten down." And so many people are out of work and struggling to survive that they literally don't have the time or energy to contemplate all these machinations which are enormous and arcane at the same time...

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. Most people have no idea how much is alraedy privatized.

I just found out today that Bank of America is responsible for sending out Food Stamps.
And Lockheed mails out the Soc. Sec. checks.
Yep, they all created subsidiaries to run those programs.

[cali]

3. that's not the trend here. In fact, it's the opposite.

[tonysam]

9. Not true. Public education is a perfect example.

Obama and Duncan are enemies of public education and are pushing through blackmail programs so states can gut teacher protections so they can push charter schools, merit pay, and other such bullshit programs beloved by neoliberals.

Some people are still living in a dream world.

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. We are so much already there, it is not even funny

but next on the cho... err privatization block are local cops, fire, and yes, the military... FULLY.

[EFerrari]

5. This is what Octafish was talking about when he said

when he said Haiti was the blueprint:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7464287

[Odin2005]

8. K&R. it's Fascism.