I Find it Interesting That Privatization in Foreign Countries is Not Posted

[fascisthunter]

Yet we see articles of Chavez in particular, nationalizing or socializing natural resources and industry in Venezuela. Just today I learned that Mexico and its right wing government is attempting to "privatize the extraction, transport, and refining of oil and gas".... heard this on the radio twice today. I see nothing here. I also looked on line for an article and couldn't find one.

Why? This country is brainwashed into thinking that privatization is somehow good and socializing is bad. It's pretty damn obvious as to how biased our country has become, at least the corporate media is doing a bang up job in reporting only one side, while silent on another... I hope here on DU people will start to realize how much privatization has chipped away at our "commons" and placed it's wealth in the hands of the already, exclusionary wealthy elite. That's not what America was supposed to be about. Just watch John Adams, the new special on HBO, and you will get a glimpse as to how America and it's ideals have been warped to benefit a very small minority in this country.

Also notice how as America has lost it's commons to the wealthy, we see a decline of the middle class. I think privatization is a ruse..... I also think it only benefits those vested in that private entity at the expense of the commons and the people that rightly own it, that would be We the People.

Trickle Down Economics is really a rich man pissing down your back. If things were more balanced I may not have woken up... but now that I am, I thought I pass on this nightmare to all of you.

[ColbertWatcher]

1. All you have to do is google...

Water privatization and the history of Enron in India.

Here are some links:

Water Privatization:
Corp Watch
The Nation
CBC
Private Citizen

History of Enron in India:
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=467">Corp Watch
http://www.alternet.org/story/12375/">Alternet
http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0203-03.htm">The Nation via Common Dreams

[guyanakoolaid]

3. Bechtel's privatization of rain itself in Bolivia is the ultimate chutzpah

But people in this country just seriously don't give a shit if it doesn't affect them.

And like I said, even when it does affect them, when they can't afford health care or even the toll charge to get to the hospital, many people are just too brainwashed to even open their eyes.

[guyanakoolaid]

2. Wait until the toll-road boondoggle hits more people in the wallets.

Of course by then it will be too late and all of our roads will be under extended lease deals to foreign companies like Cintra. And people will fall in line, chanting "privatization good!" the whole way.

It will take another Great Depression before another socialist shake-up like the New Deal will be able to happen again. Those in power will continue to bail out banks and private companies and untax the rich and tax the poor right up to the point of breaking because they realize they have successfully, through their MSM mouthpiece, demonized socialism in the minds of the general population.