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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Free ThoughtCrime America: [QB] A union that can't go on strike is a union that has no teeth. Besides, this entire problem can be circumvented by keeping public works run by the government. Privatization doesn't work, except on non-essential services. But sometimes even then, unless we're talking about something like Fot's tree trimming example, you're on your way to that dreadful "slippery slope" ethical and moral quagmires are always said to be on...except privatization throws corporate economics into the mix, as well. The reason why privatization doesn't work is simple: the private sector can't keep the costs down, because they won't put price caps on things. And even if they could, do you believe they would? The entire idea of privatization comes from the Thatcher years, and Reagonomics. It doesn't matter that every time/place it's been used, its done the *exact opposite* of what they claimed it would do...they're going to use it anyway. It's so ingrained as infallible policy in the West now, that any objection to it's continued implementation is met with derision, and scorn. Like that crowd of several thousand protesting the G8 in Ecuador. What were they complaining about? To hear Faux News tell the tale, they're practically a bunch of Luddites. No, they're ALMOST Communists. Stupid bastards. They didn't like the fact that the price of cooking gas had risen by 60 percent virtually overnight. Big Babies. Their version of governmental Energas had gotten privatized due to loan requirements imposed by the World Bank. So it was that Ecuador, a member of OPEC for chrissakes, had a 60 percent raise in the price of COOKING GAS. Ecuador. More Oil than Texas. For an Ecuadorian to pay that much for cooking gas is equivalent to Americans paying ten dollars for a Mcdonald's Jr. Cheeseburger. It's unthinkable. But as soon as you privatize a sector that used to have such things as "price caps" and "regulation" you get things like "inflated cost" and "appalling inefficency". So maybe those beatnik/hippie kids protesting the G8 in Seattle weren't just spoiled white college kids, protesting for lack of anything better to do. Maybe they had a point. The Brits, back in the day, used to pay less for electricty per unit of population than citizens of the United States did. Dirt cheap, in other words. Then Thatcher came along with her vast dildo of globalization, and now consumers pay 70 percent more per unit than us whiny Americans. Same thing with the water works in Britain: after privatizing, they pay 60 percent more than the same service in the US, where regulation still holds. Gas costs 250 percent more there than here. Yeah, it works to the benefit of the public, all right. Bush is a fucking genius. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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