Corporatizing government

A small example of what privatization of government function would look like.

House on fire? Who cares if the whole town has paid taxes to cover the cost of a fire department - you're on the hook to pay all the expenses of the fire department. So while you're dealing with the loss of all your possessions, here's a 5-figure bill too. Including, of course, a tidy profit for the private company that's handing the act of billing you.

abcnews.go.com

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What do you call it when a city's streetlights go dark, police helicopters are for sale on the internet, firefighting jobs are cut, a vice team is disbanded, burglary investigators are stopped, and beat cops are fired?

Throw in city parks that are allowed to decay and fill with trash, rec centers shuttered leaving teens idle, bus routes cancelled, roads not maintained and closings at museums, pools and libraries.

What is it called? The path to conservative utopia. Death of public services, rely on the corporations to provide.

www.denverpost.com/search/ci_14303473

"After the 10-year frenzy of tax-cutting, middle-class families are earning less today, in real dollars, than they did in 1999. Add in skyrocketing health care costs and the plummeting value of people's homes, and we get the harsh reality of mushrooming poverty."

www.creators.com/liberal/jim-hightower/republicans-out-of-touch-as-middle-class-sinks.html