[Uncle Miltie]

Good thing this is a balanced piece. You can tell from the neutral language:

Warning

roadblock

Dubai

Elephants

sold their souls

barter the public interest for a buck

scheme

Halliburton

giving private companies

monopoly

outraged

scheme

corporate interests

profit by levying the fees you pay

eminent domain to take private land

private companies

one-way street

pumping public dollars into private hands

no guarantee

dead end

selling the public interest

sweetheart deals

buzzwords for profiteering

financial rut

grand scam

stay in power

gut government

corporate-socialism

crony campaign contributors

[lentulusgracchus]

Should there have been a "balanced" article about Teapot Dome or the Credit Mobilier....? How about Orville Babcock's Whiskey Ring, or Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall? The French "XYZ" commissioners maybe could have used a break....how about Aaron Burr? The infamous Tilden-Hayes brokered election of 1876?

Nah, don't think so. MHO.

[hedgetrimmer]

corporate-socialism

If you can't call it what it really is, how can you tell people the truth?

Shall we give it a euphemism then? How about Public/Private partnership. There, that should satisfy the censors.