"5 Ways Privatization Is Poisoning America"

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5 Ways Privatization Is Poisoning America

By Paul Buchheit at AlterNet

http://www.alternet.org/economy/5-ways-privatization-poisoning-america?paging=off

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It gets more maddening every day. Essential human needs are being packaged into products to be bought and sold. The right to food and water, education, health care, public spaces, and unrestricted speech shouldn't be based on who can pay the most, or on who can generate profits with the slickest marketing pitch.

The free-market capitalism that drives our economy is a doctrine of individuals pursuing profit. Nothing else matters. An executive for Roche, a healthcare company, said "We are not in the business to save lives, but to make money."

With privatization of the common good we risk losing both our heritage and our humanness.


1. The Taking of Public Land

Attempts to privatize federal land were made by the Reagan administration in the 1980s and the Republican-controlled Congress in the 1990s. In 2006, President Bush proposed auctioning off 300,000 acres of national forest in 41 states.

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[DirkGently]

1. Yep. Water rights are next. (nt)

[Jack Sprat]

2. Good post and link. Thanks. nt