Posted on 12/26/2007 1:43:40 PM PST by NormsRevenge
Schwarzenegger calls for new tack on infrastructure (public-private partnerships) ^
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1931882/posts
Posted by calcowgirl
On News/Activism ^ 11/28/2007 1:09:04 PM PST · 91 replies
Los Angeles Times ^ | November 28, 2007 | Michael Rothfeld
He wants private firms to partner with the state in building and maintaining roads and other projects. SACRAMENTO — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Tuesday signaled a controversial push to engage private companies in the building and management of state and local public works projects, proposing a strategy widely employed in Canada, Europe and elsewhere. In such partnerships, which could take a variety of forms, private companies could finance, build and manage roads, schools, waste-water treatment plants, ports, levees, hospitals and other projects. The companies would rent the facilities to the government or collect fees from users. Though public-private partnerships have...
Don’t they do that in San Francisco?.......
Of course, that will mean an equal and commensurate decrease in taxes levied, and across the board!
Right?
Just dump Caltrans and privatize it all with no stipulations regarding union workers. Like that’ll ever happen...
CalPERS has a $252.2 Billion surplus which Ahrnold could tap. It’s public employee pension money, but they routinely get 10-11% return annually.
Crane, an advisor for matters of jobs and economic growth is also an Honorary member of the
California Commission for Jobs and Economic Growth
http://www.4cajobs.com/
too bad we can’t outsource state gubamints.. probably be a lot cheaper and less injurious to this state and country..
Chust like in de old country.
Reduces the size of the public staff but sure doesn’t reduce the size of the public budget. It’s a modern version of the old shell game.
Ahhhhnuld = big phoney
says I
I thought our government and big business already did that. The military industrial complex???????
Please Arnold, switch parties. You’re stinking up this tent.
Many opportunities for corruption.
Isn’t this how we got in trouble with Enron? Two years of brownouts because they were withholding electricity to up the price? I don’t know the politics but I know what it was like to have shortages, which proved to be manufactured for profit. Stores with half their lights off and the electric doors turned off, theaters with no air conditioning, brownouts almost every day, and bills that doubled in one summer. If he wants to outsource something it should be inmates, but they already put the kibosh on that. Oh, and he could outsource the illegal aliens to Mexico. I bet nobody’s thought of that one. (/extreme angry sarcasm)
calcowgirl called this one a long time ago. Pointing out of course how the “private” part of that deal will involve Arnold’s well-placed cronies.
calcowgirl called this one a long time ago. Pointing out of course how the “private” part of that deal will involve Arnold’s well-placed cronies.
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purely coincidence, I am sure..
.. like the limoful of Kennedys that surround him..
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