PRIVATIZATION = PIRATIZATION

Privatization is a code word for ripping off the public coffer.  It means “stealing large sums of tax dollars by redirecting it to private programs with less oversight and accountability as public ones”.

Public utilities and public resources should be just that; public!

The entire Bush/Cheney administration has been one long rape, pillage and plunder session of American tax dollars from Americans. 

And people wonder why the value of the dollar has plummeted and the cost of living in America has skyrocketed.

Must be the money

Let’s see. Dress a gang of testosterone drenched guys in what looks kinda like American military uniforms, festoon them with weapons and other macho gear just like our regular Army carries, remove them from any legal restraints whatsoever and let them loose in a country where 7 out of 10 locals already have reasons to hate Americans.  Oh yeah, what could possibly go wrong with that scenario? 

What was Bush thinking when the “Great Decider” decided using mercenary companies like Blackwater would be better for our foreign policy purposes than using normal American soldiers?  Aside from the command and control issue, have the once supposedly fiscally conservative Republicans forgotten that each mercenary costs at least five times as much as a US private doing the same task?  For a fifth less money we could have double the number of real soldiers plus doubled their pay.

No wonder we are losing the war, breaking our military, bankrupting our treasury and simultaneously daily earning new enmity.  Get our current Georgie Custer out of office before he destroys us all.

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Privatize doesn’t work for government. Healthcare just had to be privatized and we were told they will control the costs much better than the government. Prisons privatized and a failure. War privatized and we haven’t yet to see its full negative impact on our taxes and on the kinds of crime it allows.

Politicians like to privatize that way they can blame the corporations, continue to be pillars of the community and continue to pose as relevant.