Reply #9: Wouldn't surpise me if the bastards would try it. [View All]

[benfranklin1776]

Chimpbrain would see nothing wrong with taking us back to those "glorious" days which were depicted in Gang's of New York where two rival private fire companies would show up, try to extort money from the poor victim whose house was burning or for kicks fight each other while the building burned, so that the fire would spread and better increase the evenings take for their activities.

Sorry some functions such as air traffic control are simply too vital to public safety to be left in the hands of low wage, low trained "rent-a-professionals." "Well gee its too bad we lost twenty planes this year but we saved 200,000" Sorry the objective here is not savings but creating a vast system of crony patronage where these government services are performed by private companies with incestuous, no-bid, cost plus contracts like Halliburton's, with guaranteed profits skimmed off heavily by top management which funnels it into GOP coffers, while low wage employees compete for the crumbs which are left over and the public interest is subverted.