Wednesday, November 9, 2005

PRIVATIZATION THREATENS DEMOCRACY A new book was published: The Fox in the Henhouse, How Privatization Threatens Democracy. DemocracyNow: "Don't think about privatization in terms of the usual arguments that the government gives or that are given by the corporations, which say, 'Oh, this is about saving money for the taxpayers, this is about efficiency'. What we are doing is the largest transfer of public wealth to private pockets in the history of this country. We're seeing this in Iraq, where the goal of this administration is to see how much of the money that should be going to all sorts of other issues and other causes can be put into private pockets. Think Halliburton. Think Lockheed Martin. This is what is going on, and it is the undermining of public space, of the public good, of public welfare, is a deliberate strategy to undermine the ground that belongs to all of us: the common wealth, the commons, those things that create public good, that create a humane society." 10:41:06 AM

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