Public v. Private

[sixmile]

21st century U.S. politics boils down to this: Public vs. Private?

Prisons? Check.
http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/03/29/2139213/florida-lawmakers-look-to-privatize.html

Public school buses, food and janitors? Check.
http://www.thetimesherald.com/article/20110330/NEWS01/103300305/1014/RSS03/Bill-would-force-schools-privatize-buses-food-janitors?odyssey=nav%7Chead

State liquor commissions? Check.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/dannywestneat/2014608896_danny27.html

Public hospitals? Check.
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/fl-hospital-privatization-lobbying-20110327,0,2659581.story

Medicaid? Check.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/25/rick-scotts-medicaid-priv_n_840489.html

Libraries? Check.
http://www.contracostatimes.com/california/ci_17685487?nclick_check=1

Public parks? Check.
http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/article/20110330/NEWS01/103300319/0/COLUMNISTS09/Groesbeck-cemeteries-might-see-privatization-Lansing-looks-budget-savings?odyssey=nav%7Chead

Water? Check.
http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110316/A_NEWS/103160317/-1/NEWSMAP

War? Check.
You don't even need a link for this.

The destruction of all things public is the goal of the right. The time to stop it has passed.

Use your few public institutions while you can. Cherish them. Be thankful for them. They are a vanishing species.

[Armstead]

1. And too few Democrats even acknowledge this issue exists

[liberal N proud]

2. Socialize the capital, privatize the profit!

The greedy bastards are going to grab all the public entities they can and privatize them to make boatloads of money without spending

[Cleita]

6. We will become ancient Rome.

When the nobles exhausted all the capital then they had to invade other countries to get their gold, salt, slaves or whatever it was the Romans wanted. It's already started with us and a twenty-first century version of it.

[sixmile]

3. more...

Roads? Check.
http://www.gazette.net/stories/03112011/polinew194939_32542.php

Law enforcement? Check.
http://www.dailygamecock.com/viewpoints/item/1051-highway-speed-cameras-ineffective-enforcement

Nasa? Check.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,519609,00.html

and on, and on, and on...

[mwooldri]

4. Congress? check... (literally). nt

[freshwest]

5. I do cherish those people who are vanishing as we mutate into... Whatever it is.

[Kip Humphrey]

7. public education? soon to be check.