Five Poisons of Privatization

[ashling]

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/03/11

With privatization of the common good we risk losing both our heritage and our humanness.

1. The Taking of Public Land
2. Water for Sale
3. Owning Human Life
4. Owning the Air
5. Children as Products

An Antidote?

A successful society doesn't derive from a few Ayn-Rand-type individuals. It's the other way around, as philosopher John Dewey reasoned in the 1930s. It's easy to forget that our country's greatest success was due to a collaborative effort in the years during and after World War 2, when advances in manufacturing and technology made us the strongest economy the world had ever seen. It was a shared success. The common good was not for sale.

[Dawson Leery]

1. k/r

[YoungDemCA]

2. "The common good was not for sale"....

It is now, and has been headed in that direction for several decades now.

[freshwest]

3. Entire article should be read thoroughly by those unaware of how bad this is.

[WillyT]

4. K & R !!!

[octoberlib]

5. What I find particularly worrisome is the privatization of water resources.

Water is a basic necessity for human survival. It makes me very uneasy to have our water supply in the hands of corporations who are "not in the business to save lives, but to make money."

[Egalitarian Thug]

6. K&R Small 's' socialism is the natural state of humanity. n/t

[Jack Sprat]

7. Our argument is reasonable.

If the private sector is too self-absorbed with profits to provide the basic needs of our people, then the citizens at large deserve an active government to create the jobs that provide a decent standard of living.

There is no need for any of us to await the trickle-down from the wealth. The wealth should be redistributed among all the citizens so that every citizen has a job that pays for the necessities of food, shelter, and healthcare.

[quaker bill]

8. The basic conceptual problem with trickle down

is that rich people get to be rich people, by getting money into their hands and then keeping it. If they spent it as fast as they gained it, they would never become rich. It never trickles down, because they hire "wealth management" consultants to prevent it. The goal from their point of view is constant trickle up.