Thursday, June 21, 2012

The REAL Problem


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Daily Kos: Supreme Court attacks union political power

I've said it before and I'll say it again. The Court is the main reason to vote, and as such, forces anyone with half a head to vote Dem. The fact that legal fascists like Alito, Scalia, Roberts, and (God save us all!) Thomas are the ones that decide how things will be in the US is frightening beyond words. We're on our way to a fascist theocracy, thanks to our Opus Dei Supreme Court.

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US Politics | AMERICAblog News: UK private security chief sees mass privatization of British police

This is insane. Of course, the whole privatization push is insane. How anyone expects taking a non-profit public function, adding a profit layer, and providing the service for LESS money to actually work is beyond me. All one has to do is look at healthcare. What is the lowest cost of administration healthcare service? Medicare, by orders of magnitude. 

 And most government services are government services for the clear and simple reason that they need to be run for a large mass of people at all times whether or not they make a profit. The few services that, in the past, were parcelled out to private entities, or allowed to remain private, were all regulated and treated as utilities. 

I wish to hell someone had blown the Chicago School of Business off the face of the earth about 30-40 years ago (preferably while St Ronny was visiting) :) This whole business good/government evil thing might have been nipped in the bud before America turned into Thailand East.

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