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Based on the lie that companies do everything better than governments do
Politicians are selling our bridges rather than building them
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March's Lowdown
Giving corporations more power to buy politicians of their choice
"For too long," wailed the senator in a heart-tugging cry for justice, "some in this country have been deprived of full participation in the political process."
Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader of the U.S. Senate, has never been mistaken for a bleeding-heart liberal, so you can rest assured that his anguish over inequality did not concern the disenfranchisement of minorities or poor people--or any kind of people, for that matter. No, it is the tragic political deprivation faced by America's corporations that moved Mitch to such an outpouring of woe.
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The piratization of America
The "piratizers" (as the privatizing lobby has come
to be called) are out not merely to grab roads,
bridges, and other pieces of the public
infrastructure, but also to put corporations in
charge of practically all government services. What
we have here is essentially an effort to displace
government— removing the public from control of basic
aspects of our lives. Among the targets that already
are experiencing corporate takeovers:
■ Public schools
■ Hospitals
■ Postal service
■ Pensions
■ Parks
■ Police
■ Military forces
■ Welfare services
■ Child support enforcement
■ Tax collection
■ Courts/juries
■ Environmental protection