Look For The Privatization of Everything as Trump and GOP Go Full Acquisition Mode

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In other words, Trump wants to privatize everything. Trump didn’t invent this idea of course. Tirman points out that,

“There has long been an ideological divide in U.S. politics in which liberals see the production and protection of public goods as a rightful — though not exclusive — function of government, while conservatives deplore interference in the free, private market.”

So yes, Republicans have been dutifully applying this impulse for awhile now, trying to privatize things for awhile now, particular our public schools, and the objective there, as noted above, is to make money for the people involved.

And of course, we all know very well their plans for Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. Trump promised not to eliminate them, a fact which Bernie Sanders has helpfully brought to the president-elect’s attention.

http://www.politicususa.com/2016/12/30/privatization-trump-gop-full-acquisition-mode.html

[Auggie]

1. I try to alert friends/family/acquaintances/strangers to the dangers of privatization at every chance

They sure won't get it from the media.

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2. wait till the deplorables

don't have a post office either...........

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3. They talked about that early on...

He's gonna repatriate all the money that the wealthy are holding in offshore accounts by not taxing it, then they can use that money to buy up utilities and other infrastructure for dimes on the dollar.

It will get the economy going, and we won't have to pay for it until after Trump and Pence are gone. Then the privately utility companies can gouge us.

It's been the plan from the very beginning. Robert Reich wrote a thing about it.