Reply #12: This Tells Exactly What They Intend to Do [View All]

[Hidden Stillness]

I agree with the whole idea of the original post. I have never liked the word "privatization," and never use it when I'm just talking to anyone. I think "private," used this way, was even an "early," (1980s or whenever they really started pushing it), Republican propaganda/mind control/talking point, to replace the word "commercial." When Reagan etc. first started to rip up the system of government services, and outsource all the work to corporations, ("friends"), then kill those departments, I first heard these things referred to as "private." The whole trend of the Federal Government being destroyed--unionized, Federally-protected jobs and benefits lost, and our right to control how tax money was spent along with it--was concealed because it was never described clearly anymore. The original idea of a corporation was that it had a charter awarded to it by the government, and was accountable to the public. Then suddenly along comes this word "private," strangely now meaning "corporate" or "commercial," and you knew these bastards were shutting something off from us, and it was a whole new world. The right to privacy suddenly shifts, on corporate command, from the individual to a corporation with stockholders. The use of the word "private," when actually "commercial" was what was intended, plants this horrible, fascist idea in the mind that "their world"--used to be "our country"--is not for us to know; off limits, too important and complex for us. Related to this issue, I also think the word "privatize" is not strong enough, but studies have shown that people turn against it based on negative response to that word, so on that score it was okay.

The fact that they keep calling it "reform" on the media shows yet again, if you needed any more proof, that they are all the same group, and all promoting the same agenda. They respond to no facts, they admit the existence of nothing, they never change the wording even when it doesn't make sense. This TalkingPointsMemo article containing the actual words "phased out"--shocking, chilling; and thank God for people like this who are watching out for these things--should be referred to constantly. It is not "tinkering with" the system, it is not "moderate," it will END it. This is as clear as it gets. Also, just today (March 3), this asshole Alan Greenspan, (HOW does that incompetant keep that job year after year??), "proposed" abolishing the income tax (rich people) and replacing the whole system with a national SALES TAX (middle-class and poor). God, what a fuckass!

Again, as to the original post here, I agree that "termination" or "phase-out" are good, accurate, scary words, and should be used. "Reform," besides being a lie, indicates that they are being thoughtful, and perhaps have not yet decided where this legislative action will go; when actually, these evil bastards have only the intent of making us all totally destitute, desperate, begging paupers, by the real, Medieval sense of the term. Then what....?