Reply #19: The rush to privatize everything is accelerating. A big disaster for [View All]

[scentopine]

middle class and government accountability. A big victory for fascism.

Guess who is keeping quiet? Our democratic leadership who stand to get a ton of cash from the corporations systematically taking over our schools. Soon Fortune 500 will be completely in charge of our education system and in charger of another massive amount of cash which they can use to support their lavish lifestyles.

Meanwhile as our taxes go up to pay for computers in kindergarten, and our kids get punished with absurd number of tests and homework, outsourcing is sending work overseas.

But not because kids from India are smarter.

FOrtune 500 corporations are training some 26 yr old in Bangalore who is using a computer for the first time in spite of a million more qualified workers here. Why? Because if he gets sick he get fired. No 401K, no regulations, low pay, no benefits. If a contract employee in India gets raped by their supervisor or held captive in an office for a 18 hour shift, - US corporations have zero liability.

The new democrats and neo-cons are going to keep educating us until we emulate 3rd world working conditions.

Instead of blaming teachers and children, democrats should DEMAND from CEOs who run large "public" corporations to be as accountable for their performance as they demand of our children.

The centrists and realists will never demand that. They'll just demand we accept privatization because its just another chess move for the greater good.

on edit - removed AT&T as a corporation who is training unskilled labor in India while laying off people here while claiming they can't find educated workers here since that might make trouble for DU.

on double edit- decided to not name Aetna and United Health and other insurance companies as training unskilled labor in India while claiming they can't find skilled labor here while using contract firms in India in a largely unregulated labor market. It just wouldn't be right to characterize these companies as maximizing profits by exploiting unregulated labor markets and using these profits to pay congress for legislation that rewards outsourcing in the for of tax breaks and other incentives.

on triple edit - for profit hospitals are now outsourcing x-rays and other diagnostic data to India for analysis. The fact that technicians and doctors in India are not subject to the same regulations and pay as in US has absolutely nothing to do with this fact. Its simply because we do not have enough skilled doctors in US and need to outsource to to the leaders of modern medicine - India and China.